What are your favourite examples of good writing in computer science papers?
(Presumably the papers are also interesting or you wouldn't care, but I want examples that I can use specifically to learn about the style of their writing more than their content)
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Have you seen Simon Peyton Jones's advice on the topic? e.g. microsoft.com/en-us/research
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I have (though I don't really like talks as a way of consuming information), but I'm specifically looking for examples and not how tos.
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(The context is that I do not like most academic writing and am trying to find a style I can comfortably work with that won't immediately set reviewers on edge)
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this is a pretty good example of spj's style in practice microsoft.com/en-us/research
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Oh yes, I've always found basically anything with SPJ's name on it to be highly readable. "Trees that Grow" and "Wobbly types: type inference for generalised algebraic data types" were other good ones.