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December 15, 2024

3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."

The hardest part of advising Ph.D. students is teaching them how to write.

Fortunately, I've seen patterns emerge over the past couple years.

So, I've decided to replace myself with a shell script.

In particular, I've created shell scripts for catching three problems:

abuse of the passive voice,
weasel words, and
lexical illusions.