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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