Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "d — Roy Peter Clark
Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "d — Roy Peter Clark
Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "d — Roy Peter Clark
Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "d — Roy Peter Clark
Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "d — Roy Peter Clark
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Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.

— Roy Peter Clark
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