Further Reading
Jakob Nielsen has a number of good essays on the topic of writing for the Web.[29] If you’re writing a manual, Patricia Wright’s Quality of Technical Documentation [SJ94] contains a ton of useful information. Joel Spolsky tackles reading in User Interface Design for Programmers [Spo01].
Science author Carl Zimmer has written an essay about good science writing.[30] Tim Radford has compiled a set of rules for good writing based on his experience as a journalist.[31] If you’re interested in good writing in general, I really liked Stephen King’s On Writing [Kin00]. For a more science-based approach to what makes for great writing, I highly recommend Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the ...
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