Challenges of Good Writing

• Convey ideas, not just raw data. Ideas have structure: order, heirarchy.

• Convey what is important.

• Should make the reader want to learn more.

• Reader should be able to understand something even if he/she ``skims'' through the document. No need to read each line from page 1.

• Convenient organization/good chapter and section titles: Easy cross reference, Skimmers should be able to find relevant definitions without reading entire document.

• How to give good examples.

• How to write compactly.