Comments on: If you can’t say it clearly, you aren’t thinking it clearly.

By: Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:47:01 +0000

Poliana – I made the post headline up myself, though I can’t imagine I’m the first one to have said it. So if you want, you can cite me. There’s nothing new about the thought, however. Much of the scholarship about writing (in legal writing and, going back further, in composition theory) emphasizes “writing as process,” — that is, that in order to write well you have to write to formulate the thoughts you are trying to eventually embody in your final product.

By: Poliana Odonati

Poliana Odonati — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:36:48 +0000

Hello,

I would like to know who is the author of the quote:

If you can’t say it clearly, you aren’t thinking it clearly.

Thanks!

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