Diction & Style
Over the years I have spent as much spare time as I can to get better at writing. I consider myself an adequate writer, not good, but adequate. In the new age of Blogs, e-zines and whatever else is buzzworthy compliant I have tried to find tools specifically for the Unix(like) environment to help out - in other words - I avoid word processors. Suprisingly I recently came across some old Unix tools that run right from the prompt and will not mangle the original text. Diction and style are not grammar checkers but instead, grammar helpers.
Writing is hard anyone who claims different has never attempted serious writing. Technical writing is difficult owing to the balance of technical information versus good (or passable) material. Writing using only a basic ascii editor such as vi is daunting because of an apparent lack of tools to assist the writer. Although a real lack of built in tools for editors like vi exists, certainly no shortage of tools and utilities are available to help. A particular set of writing tools are diction and style.
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