主题：【原创】老板关于writing的邮件，和大家分享 -- 老马丁

个人觉得写得很好。这几天老板突然重视起俺的writing了，可能是怕俺给他丢人吧。

P.S. I recommend you continue to get intimate with Chicago Manual of

Style, or Strunk and White's "Elements of Style." This means not just

typing something once or twice, and cutting and pasting from a software

program, but reading your writing out loud in your mind and imagining

whether you would understand and be pursuaded if the material were new

to you. Then rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, until it looks as good as

what you see in a good journal article. Good writing takes a tremendous

amount of effort from the writer, but should be realatively effortless

for the reader--or at least as effortless as is possible given the

difficulty of the material that is being covered. This means checking,

rechecking, and rechecking again for the flow, progression of ideas,

macro organization, micro organization, punctuation, no spelling errors,

no extraneous spaces or lack of spaces(!), two spaces after a period,

removing excess words, logic, simplicity, and attending to your voice

which comes through in writing.