Writing Analytically, 5th Edition

your meaning inevitably exert a powerful influence on the meaning you make.

simplicity does not necessarily equal clarity.

The decisions you make about how to phrase

intention, whatever its source, does not outrank or exclude other interpretations. It is simply another context for understanding.

It is often mistakenly assumed that style is separate from meaning and in that sense largely cosmetic.

made, not ready-made in the subject matter.

Meanings, to have value outside one’s own private realm of experience, have to make sense to other people.

paragraphs as the building blocks of a piece of thinking in which movement of mind creates the structure (not the too-simple notion of topic sentence + evidence).

meanings