Monday, June 9, 2014

Writing Better

Once in a while I check on an independent computer how my articles are faring. One's own computer, these days, is 'personalised' and will not give one  a true impression. Out of ten articles that I checked today, I found four in first place in general searches (that is, searching on the general topic), while another was in third place. Another four needed more specific searches (that is, the title of the article) to turn up in the top ten. One article had dropped into obscurity. OBSERVATION: This is not merely an idle interest. It gives me a useful idea as to how to write better. It's not only what you write, but how you write it. My top articles are:
Revisiting Aristotle's Noun (in The Philosopher)
Theonomy, Autonomy, and Pneumonomy (in Philosophical Investigations)
Structural and Relational Linguistics (Philosophical Investigations) and
Linguistics and Theology (Philosophical Investigations) 
And close on their heels:
The Bridging Inference (Philosophical Investigations)

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