Extract rules from this NY Times article

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Extract rules from this NY Times article #113

Open suchow opened 9 years ago

suchow commented 9 years ago

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/writing-rules-advice-from-the-new-york-times-on-writing-well/?_r=0

Andrew-Suber commented 5 years ago

I would argue that this article has very compelling advice (Rule 1: Listen to the Voice Inside Your Head), but that the advice cannot be elegantly codified into a computer program given the current state of artificial intelligence.

How is the program supposed to ascertain whether or not you are being genuine to your internal monologue? A gifted writing teacher would have a problem doing that.

For now, this extraction should possibly be closed so that more concrete rules can be focused on.