Little Cat Feet: Subtle Sexism and the Writer's Craft.

Shear, Marie

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ERIC Number: EJ347045

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Publication Date: 1987

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Little Cat Feet: Subtle Sexism and the Writer's Craft.

Shear, Marie

Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, v50 n1 p17-18 Mar 1987

Recounts the experience of writing a biographical profile in which the language used to describe a professional woman was unwittingly sexist and how this was corrected in successive revisions. (NKA)

Descriptors: Annual Reports, Business Communication, Descriptive Writing, Females, Individual Characteristics, Language Usage, Profiles, Revision (Written Composition), Sex Bias, Sex Stereotypes, Technical Writing, Writing for Publication

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