I am a technical writer, and I have a copy editor for some of my books. For more than a decade, he has been teaching me how to write better. Even though I have been writing professionally for 25 years, I am still learning how to write. Kind of like Tiger Woods still has a coach.
Sometimes I come across badly written English that shouldn't be written that way. Well, perhaps the sentences are the result of committee work, such as this one from Brother:
Sometimes I come across badly written English that shouldn't be written that way. Well, perhaps the sentences are the result of committee work, such as this one from Brother:
To Become a Company which is Trusted by All Stakeholders and which Employees are Truly Proud to be a Part of.Perhaps it was transliterated from the Japanese.No matter. It is dreadful. Here is my rewrite:
To Be a Company Trusted by All Stakeholders, of which Employees are Truly Proud.
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