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Literary Offenses In Cooper's Writing
The essay talks about the literary offenses in Cooper`s writing. It offers ways to rectify some of those offences make the writing more economical. The author (of the given text) also presents his own version of Cooper`s writing where the word count decreases by one-thirds without changing the content and the style. I feel, however, that the new text, which might seem better to the keen eyes of a possible editor, would become less interesting to the general readers.
Cooper`s writing is written so as to be read by the public. To the untrained eyes of a normal man, literary faults do not stand out. He is not going to nitpick every single word or phrase, and think about how each could be improved. Additionally, he is not going to say that some

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