On Writing Well…and Not So Well

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 2023 English Publisher:Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Journal:Ubiquity, volume 2,023, pages 1-6 (eissn: 1530-2180,

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Authors: Philip Yaffe;

doi: 10.1145/3597454

On Writing Well…and Not So Well

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Each "Communication Corner" essay is self-contained; however, they build on each other. For best results, before reading this essay and doing the exercise, go to the first essay "How an Ugly Duckling Became a Swan," then read each succeeding essay. Books on good writing are virtually ubiquitous. They number in the hundreds if not the thousands. Occasionally one comes along that seems to stand head and shoulders above all the rest. But the question is, why?

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