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> Save yourself thousands of dollars. Here’s all the writing advice you need: The essay is good but this one sentence at the end reeks of the “bullshit industr
by klodolph 6y ago
> Save yourself thousands of dollars. Here’s all the writing advice you need:
The essay is good but this one sentence at the end reeks of the “bullshit industrial complex” that it’s trying to warn against.
If that is the only writing advice you need, then you’re in a good position. For everyone else, I recommend “Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace” which is a low-bullshit guide to fixing your writing.
I’m not trying to be pithy here; otherwise intelligent people sometimes suck at putting words down, even when they have something valuable to write.
- AussieWog93 6y agoThanks for the recommendation. Just placed an order.
- didgeoridoo 6y agoDoubly so if they have had significant exposure to academia. By her own admission, my wife wrote better back in high school than she did coming out of her doctorate. She’s not trying to be impenetrable, but those neural circuits are just too well-worn at this point.
- rchaud 6y agoThe biggest bait-and-switch of college education IMO was spending the first two years learning how to write. Everybody knows full well that the next two years are spent writing papers and theses in the same impenetrable, verbose style as used in the published journal articles. After all, those make up the majority of the reading list for intermediate and advanced-level courses.