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Wadler's Blog: Three ways to improve your writing

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Wadler's Blog: Three ways to improve your writing 16.3.07 Three ways to improve your writing Read these three texts. Each is short, but the benefits will last a long time. Heeding their advice will improve your life. It will improve mine too, if I ever read what you write. Minicourse on Technical Writing by Donald Knuth. When an undergraduate I had the great fortune to take Knuth's course on algorithms, which included a couple of lectures on technical writing. If my writing is readable, that owes much to Knuth. Later, Knuth ran a semester-long seminar on the subject, which you'll find at the e

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