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Quote of the Day 07 Dec 2010

Author:  Dan Zitting, CPA, CISA

Filed under Business Language and Writing

While writing your next audit report (which if you are anything like myself and most other auditors will almost certainly be at least three times too long), consider this brilliant thought from the book Revising Prose by Richard Lanham.

"When you are revising, the scarcest resource is human attention. Sentences are attention economies."

What a wonderful thought to keep in mind during the editing/review process.