[pg]

This is surprisingly good. Partly because he used another technique you don't get taught in school: editing.

You're usually trying to make school papers longer. As soon as it's the prescribed length, you're done. But in good writing you do the opposite.

[adamdoupe → pg]

I didn't realize this until I read "On Writing" by Stephen King (http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Stephen-King/dp/0743455967/). An excellent book about the writing process, and even though he talks about writing fiction, it applies to any writing.

[ivankirigin → adamdoupe]

The roboticist Marc Raibert also has some good advice on writing. http://www.alice.org/Randy/raibert.htm

His work is very related to AnyBot. You've probably seen that funky walking robotic dog. It's mind blowing http://bdi.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

[aswanson]

This would have been beneficial to learn in school, but my arrogance would have rendered it useless to me back then.

[brianmckenzie]

I graduated seven years ago and my writing still suffers from bad habits I learned writing college papers.