Ask HN: What are your favourite frameworks for academic or non-academic writing?

3 points by svrma 5 years ago | 5 comments

I am trying to become a better writer and I've found having a framework while writing/thinking to improve both the quality and speed of my writing/thinking.

So, wondering if others have a framework they follow or if there's a high quality collection of frameworks around.

zwayhowder 5 years ago |

When I started my MBA I was recommended The Craft of Research as a good book to help me write better. I relied on it a lot. Later I started using The So What Strategy which I refer to regularly as a consultant.

I also spent some time setting up my writing workflow. For me that was Markdown supported by Zotero (now Jurism) for references and Pandoc to generate a PDF for submission. But that workflow reflects my nerdy UNIX origin story and isn't suitable for everyone. My wife uses Google Docs with Zotero quite happily.

svrma 5 years ago | |

The books look interesting.

I am sorry, I didn't make my question clear. I was not asking about 'frameworks' as in tools but templates/structures that you use while writing/thinking.

zwayhowder 5 years ago | | |

I think we mean the same thing. Those books help me to understand the structures and templates both in the how to think and how to lay out my work.

cac1 5 years ago |

Consider Epiphany WorkFlow for the Mac. It's a workflow for writing an academic paper (among other things). I really don't fully understand what you are asking for. I hope Epiphany WorkFlow is useful.

svrma 5 years ago | |

I am sorry, I didn't make my question clear. I was not asking about 'frameworks' as in tools but templates/structures that you use while writing/thinking.