People who come to Los Osos for coaching leave with notebooks crammed with tips for improving their reporting, writing, or editing skills. This advice is time-tested, the product of six decades' experience in newsrooms and classrooms. The tips are my notions, my intellectual property and my coaching tools. They were posted on Writeasy.com with the request that anyone who downloaded them give me credit. I was disheartened to discover my tips on other websites, some offered for sale. This is plagiarism for profit. If you want printouts of the tips and agree to honor my copyright, please send a self-addressed 8 1/2 x 11 envelope and $4 for postage and handling, to: Jim Hayes, Box 6844, Los Osos, CA 93412,

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