On Thu, 08 May 2008 10:53:26 -0700, dull knife
> wrote:

>In article >, sf wrote:
>
>> A restaurant "review" is meant to influence people. I didn't think he
>> was trying to do that. I just read it as his experience in one
>> particular unit of a big chain.
>
>You're both right. It was narrative and opinion. The rules of
>exposition are going to be looser here than an editor of a newspaper
>might impose on a columnist. I'm just trying my hand at it.
>
>Barb, I would be happy to try it another way. Perhaps you could direct
>me to a review you like that I could emulate, or give me a set of
>restaurant-reviewing rules to try. I've only been published once (re.
>a particularly challenging hang-glider flight), so I readily admit that
>I have much to learn.

As do many, sweetie pie. Writing for the masses isn't easy.

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