Complexity is No Excuse for Bad Writing
5 min readFeb 19, 2020
Early in my technical-editing career I sat in a room full of geologists and watched them slowly come to grips with the terribleness of their writing. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t take some satisfaction in the experience. It validated my belief that the inscrutability of bad science writing doesn’t come from the complexity of the subject matter, but instead from the poor quality of the writing.
