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Re:Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing by vicda on Saturday October 09, 2021 @02:23AM (#28807525)
The video also starts with, and continues throughout with, explaining to people why their current writing style is bad, and why a new style is better. It happens to be a convincing explanation.
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Re:Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing by teddyh on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:23PM (#28820745)
> It happens to be a convincing explanation.

It doesn’t just randomly happen to be convincing. The convincing part is why it works at all.

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