Shitty writing by university students explained
january 2011 by joeclark
‘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
december 2010 by joeclark
‘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
‘I once had an urge to write’
june 2009 by joeclark
But Twits killed it, essentially
justbeyondthebridge
blogging
writing
twitter
june 2009 by joeclark
Rands In Repose: Swear A Bit
january 2006 by joeclark
How to write like a messager, not a journaler
rands
writing
blogging
january 2006 by joeclark
Writing System Workshop 2005
october 2005 by joeclark
And that would be what?
tiro
johnhudson
writing
alphabets
typedesign
linguistics
october 2005 by joeclark
Hanzi Smatter 一 知半解
august 2005 by joeclark
‘Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters’
hanzi
chinese
writing
hanzismatter
mezzoblue
august 2005 by joeclark
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