Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking

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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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