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A wizened speechwriter and rhetoric observer asked me if I'd seen Greta Thunberg's speech this week. "It's passionate. And brave. Really brave. But not rhetorically that interesting, I don’t think." Not linguisticallythat …

All writers should read aloud everything they write, and no writers know this better than speechwriters. (For instance, if I read the previous sentence aloud, I’ll change “know” to “understand,” …

It’s karma. Bad karma. I have publicly lampooned bad cover letters written by young people. Such letters range, not too widely, from the impossibly callow—”I think outside of the box …