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Ask HN: Where do you go to get your technical blog posts / articles proof read?

2 points by tobz ↗ HN
I'm starting to try and be more diligent about blogging: learn new things, be forced to understand them well enough to write about them, etc.

The thing is, though: I don't have a good barometer of whether or not what I'm writing actually does make sense. I wish I could post it somewhere, ideally somewhere related to the target audience, to have it proof read and suggestions made.

Where do all of you turn to in order to get your technical posts polished up?

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tenken
I'd suggest have a co-worker read it.

Other than that I'd suggest a writing class or private tutoring. The other obvious recommendation is to use tools like spellcheckers, etc while composing.

tobz
Yeah, I'm worried about both the technical aspect -- did I correctly understand and explain this algorithm? -- and the quality of the writing -- do you understand what I meant here as I described doing a "depth-first search" on a binary tree? -- and trying to think of the best place to get both of those examined.

It feels like getting the quality down implicitly depends on getting the technical veracity sorted, but I don't write enough to really know which one is more important, hence my dilemma. :D