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Author and senior scholar Roy Peter Clark has been teaching writing for more than three decades.
In this essay for Poynter, he picks apart "kick-ass" columns, highlighting their characteristics and offering examples.
He points to seven elements great columns tend to have in common, including "a short laser blast of a lead" and "at least one element that feels like a bridge too far".
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