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1. Accuracy of facts. 2. Soundness of reasoning. 3. Clear explanation of the topic’s significance. 4. Unaffected, terse, lucid prose. About the language, some remarks: (6) “The most direct method and style is the most suggestive one.” “True wit is best set in plain style.” Herbert Spencer, The Style of Writing The writing and the revision (1): Only when they are pelled to lay out their argument in sentences and paragraphs, scrupulously designed to lead the prospective reader from point to point, do they finally see it as a logical whole, and only then do remaining deficiencies of evidence and reasoning bee apparent. (189) The writing and the revision (2): But even the most conscientious preliminary outlining and sentencebysentence writing seldom results in a first draft that can also stand as the final one. Some writers, in fact confess that their hardest and most profitable thinking is done in the very act of position. (189) The writing and the revision (3): Rethinking calls for rearrangement, and rearrangement means rewriting。 let it run its course in the position of the first draft. Btu then let time do its slow work. Put the manuscript away for as long as you can – weeks, months, years. When you finally take it out again, you will have a new perspective (and better judgment). (197) 謝謝各位!