Writing
Example of well written technical paper: A Mathematical Theory of Communication by C. E. Shannon (1948)
Resources
- Creating a writing culture
- Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
- Writing more by Paul Stamatiou, 2020
- Writing tools I learned from The Economist
- easy to understand and straight to the point, i.e. be little bit less selfish and don’t try to show how large your vocabulary is if you can use simpler terms that are easier for the reader to grasp
- stack your supporting observations close together to make your point
- summarize with first sentence, explain with following ones
- use verbs, nouns, and adjectives the paint the picture, e.g. entered the building vs. stormed into the building
- if you need to give background or exlain some event in past, start with it instead of doing so at the end, this sets the tone and adds background to the reader before throwing him in
- Editing technique of counting to use with writing (2021)
- Great Memos
- Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now
- Writing, Briefly - short article, just open it and re-read
- Writing for Engineers
- Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing
- How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework
- Lose the very - alternatives for very + subjective
- SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIANS AT THE GATE (OR HOW I BECAME A TYPOGRAPHER, PT. 2) #typography #writing
- En dash, em dash and hyphen; what’s the difference? (also ndash and mdash, or n-dash and m-dash) #typography #writing
- Common Bugs in Writing
- US Federal plain language guidelines
- The Complete Plain Words (Book)
- Common Errors in Technical Writing
- University of Minnesota - Style Manual
- Why Write?
- Some tactics for writing in public
- The Elements of Style
- Harper - The Grammar Checker for Developers