Paul Graham wrote an essay titled Good Writing (May 2025).
« I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right… Fixing sentences that sound bad seems to help get the ideas right. »
Continue reading “Clumsy writing will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too”Paul Rohan wrote an article titled LLMs Are Killing Your Writing Fingerprints (17 June 2025).
Continue reading “Large language models ease surface workload but also mute the neural and linguistic fingerprints that mark genuine learning.”George Orwell, author of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), wrote an article titled Politics and the English Language for the April 1946 edition of Horizon.
« Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. »
Continue reading “George Orwell: Politics and the English Language”An article titled Eighteenth-Century Grammars on the British Literature Wiki (hosted by University of Delaware) explains when the capitalization of common nouns (substantives) came in and out of fashion, the use of the long s in English, and more.
Continue reading “18th Century English: capitalizing common nouns and long S”Natalie Wexler wrote an article titled The College Kids are Not All Right (2 June 2024).
« Reports from professors point to an alarming decline in cognitive capabilities, even at selective institutions… College professors are reporting that their students are no longer capable of reading or writing the kinds of complex texts that used to be routine assignments. »
Continue reading “Natalie Wexler on the declining literacy skills of college students”Jonathan Lambert wrote an article for NPR titled Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning (May 11, 2024).
Continue reading “Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning”Barbara Minto was McKinsey’s first female MBA professional hire. She was with the firm from 1963-1973. She is best known for developing the Minto Pyramid Principle.
Continue reading “Minto Pyramid Principle”Bill Birchard wrote an article for Harvard Business Review (July-August 2021) titled The Science of Strong Business Writing.
Continue reading “Bill Birchard on The Science of Strong Business Writing.”
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