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March 24, 2012

Best Written Paper

Filed under: Documentation,Writing — Patrick Durusau @ 7:36 pm

Best Written Paper by Michael Mitzenmacher.

From the post:

Daniel Lemire pointed to an article on bad writing in science (here if you care to see, not CS-specific), which got me to thinking: do we (in whatever subcommunity you think of yourself being in) value good writing? Should we?

One question is what qualifies as good writing in science. I’m not sure there’s any consensus here — although that’s true for writing more generally as well. While colorful word choice and usage can garner some attention* (and, generally, wouldn’t hurt), unlike what some people may think, good writing in science is not a vocabulary exercise. I find that two key features cover most of what I mean by good writing:

  1. Be clear.
  2. Tell a story.

Those two points cover “good writing” for all types of writing.

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