Writing Analytically, 5th Edition

we do so not simply to break things down but to construct our understandings

meanings

exploratory state of mind,

simplicity does not necessarily equal clarity.

try eliminating evaluative adjectives—those that offer judgments with no data.

that there is a big difference between experts who make decisions in the blink of an eye and relative novices

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).

Having good ideas is less a matter of luck than of practice,

argument for the value of reflection in an age that seems increasingly to confuse sustained acts of thinking with information downloading and formatting.