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- W1976442581 abstract "Those who preach and teach “good writing” almost always appeal to the need for “communication.” They urge the fact that writing is to be read and when read, understood. And if the particular piece of writing is intended as “a scientific communication,” the precept seems all the more apt and imperative. The phrase scientific communication was in fact established from the earliest days of scientific journals and meetings to make clear that in modern science the practitioners do not keep their findings secret; they tell what they know, for the benefit of other workers and ultimately of humankind. But it is clear today that this appeal, this tearful plea to communicate repeatedly voiced by the critics of scientific writing, does little good. The staffs of learned journals have to edit and rewrite more and more of what they receive, while keen observers of the scene such as Dr. Lois DeBakey and the late Franz Ingelfinger. editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, carry on a veritable crusade for “communication.” Now it is fair to assume that nobody writes a paper so as to conceal his work; there are no alchemists around, giving out false clues to secret formulas. Every piece published or unpublished tries to communicate. If it fails, urging the need will not improve the paper or the general situation. Writers muddle their meaning because they are unable to see and hear their words as these will look and sound to the receiving mind; they have not learned to impersonate the reader. Nor will remembering and applying rules of grammar be of much help by itself. The difficulty goes beyond mere correctness. What is needed is a form of deliberate self-consciousness, detaching oneself from what one has put down on paper and comparing it with what? If one can’t imagine the reader and his stubborn little mind, what else is there? After scanning the state of professional writing for half a century I have come to think that for many writers there may be a better target than “effective communication,” with its implied guessing at the mind of another. A preferable aim, I suggest, is “fit expression,” by which I mean something like the work of the artist working from a model. Let the writer ask himself: is this really what I did, what I saw, what I found, what I conclude? If his word portrait is a good" @default.
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- W1976442581 title "What makes writing right?" @default.
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