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buybuydandavis comments on Tips for writing philosophical texts - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Jan_Rzymkowski 31 August 2014 10:38PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 01 September 2014 01:08:57AM *  7 points [-]

Motivate the reader upfront with a description of payoff at the end of the trip, and an outline of the path to get there, and why that path is necessary to get to the payoff.

It's simply death for an article to start by introducing a bunch of concepts that the reader knows nothing about and has no idea why they're being presented.