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  • Write About What You Know and About What You Don’t Know

    December 22, 2008

    • When I was in college studying to become a magazine journalist, I was taught to write what I know. No matter whose class I took or the type of class, the professor always told the students the same thing: Write what you know. The caveat to this rule lay in its reverse: If you can't write about what you know, know about what you write. In other words, become the expert on the topic.Over the ...