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How to Write Usefully
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
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The reason it would matter is that writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them.
A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of disco... See more
A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of disco... See more
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
Such theorizing, however, is too vague to be useful here. It’s time to get down to fundamentals. What makes good writing good and bad writing bad? Here are some notions that are important to me.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Useful writing is bold, but true.
