Good Writing

There are two senses in which writing can be good: it can sound good, and the ideas can be right. It can have nice, flowing sentences, and it can…

And yet no matter how hard I push, I never find myself having to choose between the sentence that sounds best and the one that expresses an idea best…

But I found, to my surprise, that it never did. I always ended up with something I liked better. I don't think this was because my writing was…

But other times they're more subtle, and you need longer, more complicated sentences to tease out all the implications. An essay is a cleaned up…

If for some bizarre reason the number of jobs in a country were fixed, then immigrants really would be taking our jobs. So it's not quite right to…

Notes [ 1 ] The closest thing to an exception is when you have to go back and insert a new point into the middle of something you've written. This…