Writing a Clear Abstract and Introduction
- Readings:
- Randall Munroe, Up Goer Five, XKCD.
- Notes: For class today, write the first part of your paper using only the ten hundred words people use most often. It may help to use this box you can type in to check your work.
- Additional Resources:
- Randall Munroe, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (2015). Up Goer Five in extended book form. Highly enlightening.
- Guy L. Steele, Growing a Language (1998). Another example of how to build up big ideas from small pieces.
- Patrick Winston, How to Speak (2018) (transcript). I saw Winston give this talk live when I was at an impressionable age, and it has shaped my presentation style. I depart from his advice in a few ways, but there is a lot in here to learn from.