Our final graded memo is due this week. I think everyone hoped it would be less brain damaged than the prior assignments, but that hope was misplaced. Right now I have a pretty complete draft but I'm a page over the limit, so I'm going through looking for excess verbiage to cut. Why say "This is very different from Case X" when you can just say "Contrast Case X"?

I wouldn't wish this on anyone to read due to its mildly abstract use of the english language. Fortunately, it won't be. I learned my lesson with the last graded memo: no points for things like verbs, adjectives, connecting phrases, etc. So, they're gone, a luxury of civilian life.

13 Mar 05