shminux comments on Writing Style and the Typical Mind Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 14 July 2013 10:31:23PM *  0 points [-]

Writing is both art and craft. Unless you are a natural at writing, there are standard technical writing techniques you can follow (and must follow if you want to get published). I mentioned some of them a couple of years back. Keeping in mind a simple "state-explain-summarize" approach helps to make technical posts reach a certain minimum readability level.