goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) (08/19/90)
Does anyone actually use style and diction. Diction has a nice little display, and allows easy fix-ups. The dict.d file, though, could be extended in a number of ways (does anyone have a good dict.d file?). Style, though, seems only to report opaque word- lengths, and various statistics on parts of speech and sentence- type. In terms of basic, Strunk & White-type help with writing, it seems to be of minimal use. I wonder: Has anyone actually gotten some good mileage out of style? If so, could he or she perhaps offer some guidance? -Richard
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (08/20/90)
In article <1990Aug19.044150.25718@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes: >Does anyone actually use style and diction. Sure, I use them whenever I'm writing a formal paper. The basic use of "style" is to determine whether your readers will be able to follow your prose without getting a headache. If not, revise your writing, ruthlessly reducing complex constructions etc.