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Activity for Billy ONeal‭

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Edit Post #6438 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
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Question Should one use the legal "shall" in requirements documents and specification documents?
At least in the US, "will" has replaced "shall" in most every context, with the notable exception of the "legal shall". Shall is used instead of will in legal documents to indicate a sense of obligation or requirement; e.g. "the defendant shall vacate the premises by October 16". In software, requir...
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about 12 years ago
Question Why do writers use pseudonyms?
It's common enough -- recently I was looking for Seanan McGuire's newer book only to find it was published as "Mira Grant". Why would an author do this?
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over 13 years ago
Question Are there good tips on being a better *creative* writer?
I'm a student at Case, and while we of course have an English department, it seems the only kind of writing classes/courses available are for learning to be either a "literary" writer, or a "scholarly" writer. I'm not interested in either of those alternatives -- I'd like to write something that's si...
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almost 14 years ago