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Beyond a little added caution, always a good idea even when not pregnant, things that are restricted due to these bugs shouldn’t really be completely off your list during pregnancy. If we look at the list above, this means that raw fish and raw eggs should at least be back on a “sometimes” list (assuming you typically eat them). Eating raw eggs from a slightly postdated carton from 7-Eleven is probably best avoided. But by everyone, not just pregnant women.
Expecting Better
Emily Oster
An occasional GDP or CAB won't hurt anyone, but even such a commonplace as GDCF pains all but the most hardened accountant. "Gross domestic capital formation" is fine once or twice to fix ideas, but then "capital formation" or (after all) plain "it" will do the job. Believe me: people will not keep slipping into thinking of it as NDCF or GCF or GC. The point is to be clear, not to “save space"
(as the absurd justification for acronyms has it, absurd because the acronyms in most long papers save a half dozen lines of print, less than the pointless table-of-contents paragraph).
Economical Writing
Deirdre N. McCloskey
The first question I encourage you to ask yourself is, “Who is this piece of writing for?”
One of the biggest ironies when it comes to online writing is that people think Audience and Subject Matter are two completely separate variables. They sit down to write whatever it is they want to write, and then, after the fact, they say, “Ok now how do I get this in front of a billion people?”
What these writers fail to realize is that Subject Matter is actually what defines the size of their Audience.
The size of your audience is a direct reflection of the size of the question you’re answering.
The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
Nicolas Cole
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