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Shitty writing by university students explained
‘Punctuation… is governed by a fairly complicated series of rules and conventions, learned for the most part not in the classroom but by encountering and subliminally absorbing them again and again…. You need to read a lot of edited and published prose’
English  copy-editing  copyediting  clunk  benyagoda  writing 
january 2011 by joeclark
Paul Ford: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive. Everyone is braced for audience attack and opens their posts with four paragraphs explaining why the remaining four paragraphs are worth reading’
paulford  ftrain  writing  blogging 
december 2010 by joeclark
Rands In Repose: Swear A Bit
How to write like a messager, not a journaler
rands  writing  blogging 
january 2006 by joeclark
Hanzi Smatter 一 知半解
‘Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters’
hanzi  chinese  writing  hanzismatter  mezzoblue 
august 2005 by joeclark

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