Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking
I'm coming back to the idea of revising my Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening. In particular, though good writing never changes, technology does. I need to talk more about how to use software in writing articles. I need to talk about programming style and posting data and code on the Web. I need to talk about online seminars.
The "gunner" in law school is the student who answers questions too eagerly and quickly. It is worth discussion how to be a good student-- when to answer a question, when not to answer, and when to ask a aquestion of the professor.
Karina Yan Glaser wrote on Twitter:
My daughter’s fifth grade teachers were tired of getting emails consisting of, “hi, i don’t understand the hw. can u help. thx.” So they had a lesson on it, and last night’s homework was to write an example of a proper email requesting help. Here is my daughter’s.
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