I'm just popping by to give you some help I recently gave to a client. Hope it helps!
When we start a new paragraph, we may be tempted to use a personal pronoun
that refers back to the paragraph before. Editors--should figure out the style
preferences of the publication you're editing and follow protocol. They should
suggest using either the person's last name or full name rather than that pesky
pronoun. By the time it's traveled to a new paragraph its antecedent may not be
all that evident.
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2 comments:
Especially important for inserting a name is at the start of a new page. Otherwise, the reader can get very confused!
Morgan Mandel
Morgan, it's so easy to let pronouns lead us astray. The writer is so familiar with the piece, he or she knows what the pronoun points back to. The reader doesn't have that luxury.
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