III. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic. If the subject on which you are writing is of slight extent, or if you intend to
An Operadic Approach to Compositionality
An Operadic Approach to Compositionality
Principles for crafting software
My principles for deciding what to work on and how to build it.
Let’s Talk About Margins
We're making a book. The margins are important. Do you know how important? An essay on the importance of details felt, if not always noticed.
Page 4: POW+TREE Writing Strategy
As Ms. Lin reflects on the trouble her students are having with writing, she realizes that many of her students need help incorporating the four elements of the writing process (i.e., planning, organizing, writing, and editing and revising) into their essays. She concludes that they need a guide or strategy to follow as they write.[.....]
Writing Handbook: How to source writing ideas
Learn how to write an introduction paragraph. This guide explains the writing process for introductions, as well as the process for deciding what to write about.
Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
“So. In the past few years, you’ve all learned that an essay should be five paragraphs. The first paragraph states your argument and includes a topic sentence. You develop your argument over the next three paragraphs, and finish with a conclusion paragraph that starts with the words ‘in conclusion’ or something.”
Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers
Recently, my work has involved writing a lot of documentation and. Doing this has introduced me to...
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
afterword
Writing this handbook has been a process of not over-thinking it. In deciding to do it post-by-post, day-by-day, I practiced sharing as I went, posting to a ...
Introduction - Standard.site
A brief introduction to Standard.site lexicons, what they are, and how they're used.
Category: The Essence of Composition
I was overwhelmed by the positive response to my previous post, the Preface to Category Theory for Programmers. At the same time, it scared the heck out of me because I realized what high expectati…
