Writing
Dated Mar 21, 2020; last modified on Sun, 14 Mar 2021
Dated Mar 21, 2020; last modified on Sun, 14 Mar 2021
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| May 2, 2020 | » | On Learning
11 min; updated May 27, 2023
Mental Attitude While LearningDistinguish Mere Facts From Conclusions or OpinionsDiscriminate between mere statements of facts, necessary conclusions which follow therefrom, and mere opinions which they seem to render reasonable. There’s no need to perform an experiment to verify that the atomic weight of oxygen is 16. That the sum of the angles of a plane triangle equals two right angles is not a mere fact, but an inevitable truth. ... |
| Jan 3, 2021 | » | Writing for Software Development
3 min; updated Sep 5, 2022
MUST and MUST NOT; On Writing Documentation
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| Dec 9, 2019 | » | Writing
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Writing Meta; 00. An Introduction to Writing; The Writing Process; 01. Invention; 02. The Subject; 03. Classification and Order; 04. Beginning and Ending; 05. Expansion; 06. Momentum; Writing for Software Development; The New Strategy of Style [Weathers, Winston]; [Orwell] Politics and the English Language; |
| May 23, 2016 | » | 00. An Introduction to Writing
2 min; updated Aug 14, 2021
I should do more of this. Collections on Edge? OneNote Snippet on Mac? ... |
In writing class, I was taught to target a specific reader. The above suggests that I target multiple types of readers with the same piece. I’m hesitant to overrule what I learnt. Or is it more that the same reader will have different objectives in each read? Sometimes I read docs in order to understand the design; other times, I’m in search of a quick example to get the syntax.
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