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Ask HN: How do you teach engineers to be better writers?

We recently put in place more a formal requirement around technical specifications in my company, which has revealed a wide range of writing skills on the team. (Unsurprisingly, the engineers who were already writing extensive specs before the requirement was put in place are generally effective writers. Those who weren't doing so are less so.)Some of the engineers are really quite poor...

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