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    Jamie Siddons on Bangladesh's performance in the last league match of the Asia Cup

    Jul 4, 2008

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    How to put off your readers

    By Will 5 months ago Leave a comment on this post

    How to put off your readers, by John Buchanan. Here’s his opening par in a piece for ABC:

    In my recent book, “If Better is Possible”, I have a chapter on ‘Silver Linings’ which discusses the beneficial outcomes that can flow from circumstances of darkness and destructive conflict, if one is prepared to look for them!….a lot more on that later.

    Those final six words are enough to prompt the reader to attach the hose and start the car…

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