From today's Wall Street Journal...
"Why is so much writing so bad? Why is it so hard to understand a government form, or an academic article or the instructions for setting up a wireless home network?"
The answer in Steven Pinker's article, The Source of Bad Writing, points to what he calls the Curse of Knowledge: a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. It is an excerpt from his new book: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
