# Writing Skills

Graduate School, from time to time, organizes 3-hour writing workshop -- compared with their compulsory semester-long Thesis Writing course, I found the workshop a bit more practical (but don’t expect too much -- also, some writing requirements, such as article structuring, are different in CS and this workshop taught general scientific writing). --ttauber<br>

**TextLint**, a tool for checking stylistic errors in scientific writing: <http://scg.unibe.ch/research/textlint>

[http://textlint.lukas-renggli.ch](http://textlint.lukas-renggli.ch/)<br>

Gunning Fog Index (measure of “readability” of sentences): [http://gunning-fog-index.com](http://gunning-fog-index.com/)

[https://readability-score.com](https://readability-score.com/) (+ other readability measures)

<https://github.com/smh436/GunningFogIndex> (a Perl script)<br>

Stanford Online Course: <http://online.stanford.edu/course/writing-in-the-sciences><br>

P. R. Halmos, How to Write Mathematics, in Selecta: Expository Writing, Sarason and Gilman, editors, Springer-Verlag, 1983.<br>

C.A.R. Hoare, “Envoi”, in Essays in Computing Science, C.A.R. Hoare and C.B. Jones, editors, Prentice Hall, 1989.<br>

Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts, Mathematical writing, Mathematical Association of America, 1996.<br>

**Simon Peyton Jones, How to Write a Great Research Paper**: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dkRsTqdDA><br>

**William Strunk Jr and E. B. White, The Elements of Style**, Longman, 1959 (4th edition, 1999).

(Original version from 1918: <http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html>)<br>

R Barrass, Routledge, Scientists Must Write,  2002.<br>

Ernest Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, Penguin, 1987 (original edition, 1948).<br>

George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, from Inside the Whale and Other Essays, Penguin, 1969.\ <br>


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