Ordinary Banana

I've anecdotally sensed a rising premium for people who can write well. Writing skills are very hard to teach. But maybe it's a side-effect of typical college grads reverting to the mean, i.e. writing quality rises in importance as the signal quality of a degree declines.https://twitter.com/NoamJStein/status/1154595162926067714 …

Doing documentation/technical tutorials, this is particularly apparent to me. Very smart people with sharp technical skills (much sharper than mine) who just aren't good at writing

I wonder how effective actually trying to teach good writing is, as opposed to letting people figure it out over a long period of reading/writing

It can be taught but there's no substitute for just tons of reading and writing. Knowing good writing is noncognitive. It's being able to see two equally grammatical sentences and knowing that one "feels" better than the other.

Ive considered that the best way to improve someone's writing is just telling them, "read these 10 books and 20 articles with excellent prose"