Re:How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
by coldshower on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:11PM
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The article is a mind dump from his blog Half an Hour. The tagline should explain it all: A place to write, half an hour, every day, just for me.
Re:How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
by acagle on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:15PM
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I was turned off by the non-conversational tone of his writing and didn't get beyond the first three or four paragraphs. The sentences are long and pausing constantly with unnecessary commas. This is exactly the kind of writing I am trying to get away from, so I'm not interested in taking advice from someone who does this.
"How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly"
-- contains a contradiction: by definition, an expert doesn't require tutorial instruction (expertise is not a transferable consumer product). The essay goes quickly downhill from there.
One more example:
"But part of it is a simple strategy for writing your essays and articles quickly and expertly, a strategy that allows you to plan your entire essay as you write it, and thus to allow you to make your first draft your final draft."
The observation this sentence makes is self-falsifying. The sentence is too long and meandering and cries out for the compassionate intervention of an editor.