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HPR4601: How to be a better writer

Hosted by enistello on 2026-03-23 01:00:00
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Some tips on how the text you write can be improved.

With the pestilence of AI spreading out over the once-human internet, doing what LLMs don't is a pretty good starting point to improve one's own writing.

  1. Make mistakes.
  2. Edit yourself.
  3. Avoid the tics that are dangerously close to becoming the norm.

See this Wikipedia page, aimed at editors of user submissions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

The sections on content, language & grammar, and style are particularly relevant.

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