A funny thing happened in the course of my last post: I committed the same error I was complaining about: putting readability before rigor. In an earlier version (this is where the problems began, perhaps: fussing over it too much) I had a lengthy excerpt from Seth Godin’s excellent post. In the process of making my post more [...]
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Halfway through his review of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, it became totally clear to me. I mean, I always knew it but I didn’t appreciate the full implications until now. Malcolm Gladwell is essentially an entertainer. He writes to be read and enjoyed rather than to challenge and educate. He turns ideas into [...]
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What is Good Writing?
by OpenConceptual on 07-02-2009
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A funny thing happened in the course of my last post: I committed the same error I was complaining about: putting readability before rigor. In an earlier version (this is where the problems began, perhaps: fussing over it too much) I had a lengthy excerpt from Seth Godin’s excellent post. In the process of making my post more [...]
Tagged as: academics, blogging, editing, malcolm gladwell, pandering, pedantry, popularity, precision, richard florida, seth godin, writing