One of my pet peeves when reading someone else's writing is the cliched use of rhetorical questions, especially when it's in news writing or blogs. I used to be in charge of developing course flyers for the Annenberg School (I actually started the buzz myself because I wanted my job to be more exciting when I first started here, then it was passed on to someone else {{{SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION}}}). Anyway, I wish I could have had a dollar for everytime a professor would give me a course description that had a long stream of rhetorical questions and then concluded with "This course will address those questions."
Maybe I'll find a good piece of journalism that would illustrate this further...
In any case, I got so sick of seeing rhetorical questions.
But then I read through my own blogs and noticed how many times I've used rhetorical questions. I must stop whining about them now. :)
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