: Re: Quality of my blog writing I came here from Jeff Atwood's blog where he mentions that writing a blog can clear your own internal thought processes and that you should take feedback about your

First of all, Matt, I'd like to offer a word of encouragement. Writing your own blog is a fantastic exercise for someone wishing to improve his writing. Even if you don't get feedback, you are "flexing your writing muscles". So keep it up.

Now, others have pointed out some of the flaws (the correct use of "its" versus "it's", typographical errors, and the chatty style). I would further suggest that you reduce your "question asking" approach, which I only noticed in the ASP.NET ComboBox article.

Your Assumptions in software article shows that you have undeniable talent as a writer and you should not give it up (even if your coding makes you rich).

In that article, proper use of a dash (especially the typesetting difference between a dash and em-dash) is about the only additional thing I can pluck out as a criticism. When you use a dash you are setting up an expectation in the reader's mind that what follows will be emphatic or surprising. Some authors have rules to use a dash exclusively when they want to toss a non sequitur into their sentence -- rules made to be broken. A dash is incorrectly used as a substitute for a colon. Colons also set up an expectation: that what follows will clarify, summarize, define, or otherwise comment on what came before.

Remember to keep at it, Matt!

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