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Stephen Downes

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I try very hard to employ the writing style described here as 'classic style'. " In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are intellectual equals, and the occasion is informal." It's a form that combines clarity and authority. "The idiom of classic style is the voice of conversation. The writer adopts the pose of a speaker of near-perfect efficiency whose sentences are the product of the voice rather than some instrument of writing." That said, I do use the first person more often that (say) a guide or museum label, because it's important to be clear when I'm expressing my opinion, as opposed to stating facts.

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