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Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing

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This blog post is about how to explain things in writing.

This blog post is about how to explain things in writing. You should learn to explain things in writing because it's the most efficient way of conveying an idea to a large, distributed audience. Whether digital or printed, plain text is portable and takes little space on a drawer or hard drive. Plain text is also easy to share and index. Furthermore, good writing leads to good thinking, especially if you're writing to explain something. Explaining forces you to find logical connections between subjects and reduce complex pieces of knowledge to concrete examples and actionable advice. To teach

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