On writing

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• How to write to a professor

• Advice on writing papers and other things

  • Advices from economist

    • Chris Blattman: How to Write an Essay

    • Chris Blattman: How to Discuss a Paper

    • Chris Blattman: How to Write Like a Madman

    • John Cochrane: PH.D Paper Writing

    • Greg Mankiw: How to write well

    • Don Davis: How to get Research Ideas

    • Hal Varian: How to build a model in your spare time

    • John Kenneth Galbraith: Writing, Typing, and Economics

    • David Romer: Out in Five

    • Ross Levine: Recommendations for Better Research

    • Daniel Hamermesh: Etiquette for Young Economists

    • Michael Kremer's Checklist

  • ​​​​​​​Non-economists (but still good)

    • Henry Farrell: Good Writing

    • Math-Genius Terence Tao’s advice on writing papers

    • Mike Kaspary's checklist

    • Lessons from Kurt Vonnegut

    • Lessons from Hemingway

    • Writing good paragraphs

    • Fighting procrastination

  • Books

    • William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White “The Elements of Style”

    • William Zinsser “On Writing Well”

    • Deirdre N. McCloskey Economical Writing