A Thought On Academic and Intel­lectual Progress

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A Thought On Academic and Intel­lectual Progress

Last year, when I was studying a text on cultural anthro­pology, I found myself thinking that it is a poorly written textbook. I found myself trying to mentally rewrite the textbook such that it makes more sense to me. And then a thought occurred to me: academic progress has been stalled by bad writing. [continued…]

One Early Afternoon: A Short Story

Under the fluo­rescent lights that lit every­thing with a perfectly neutral white, in between unkempt shelves of children’s toys, Mark held in his hand a stiff box containing a series of trans­forming robots. He had been wandering inside the Target department store for nearly an hour. Orig­i­nally, he had intended to quickly drop by to purchase some dinnerware.

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How To Incor­porate Details In Your Writing

One thing that I notice that many beginners in writing do is that they tend to make lists of details. For example, you may have seen sentences that sound like this: “Our winters forced us to keep a simple diet of carrots, cabbage, and rabbit served in a watery stew.” The problem with these kinds of details is […]

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Why the new RoboCop won’t be as good

I haven’t commented on movies in a long time, but I really felt like I had to point out why the new RoboCop remake will fall short of its 1987 predecessor.

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How To Write Success­fully: The Begin­nings of a Formula

A few people have asked me how I write so well. At first, I couldn’t really artic­ulate it. I’d read a dozen books on writing, but I never could recall any of their discrete rules. So I started to trace my own thought process as I began to write a new piece. What follows is the inner workings of my own process.

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