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@paulg @sama I was a technical writing major but comms classes helped me learn to communicate ideas more than anything

@paulg @sama I agree! I did SLE (way better than IHUM/PWR, IMO :-)) but only learned to write afterwards.

@paulg @sama linguistics classes were interestingly helpful regarding how structure, semantics & pragmatics are related.

@paulg @sama by the way at the moment reading 'On Writing Well' by William Zinsser and got same advice "Write Like you Talk"

@paulg @sama I learned to write on Twitter. Thousands of practice reps of being concise

@paulg @sama Agreed PG...learning by doing. Chicago edtech/socent startup @HoorayLearning out of @TheImpactEngine is focused on this w/kids.

@paulg @sama writing for engineers was a useful class imo. Makes communicating with tech teams from the product role much easier.

@paulg @sama I was never good at Portuguese (or English) as it was taught at school. Learned reading & writing. But I do miss fundamentals.