1. Thou shalt remember thy readers all the days of thy life; for without 

 readers thy words are as naught. 



2. Thou shalt not forsake the time-honored virtue of simplicity. 



3. Thou shalt not abuse the third person passive. 



4. Thou shalt not dangle thy participles; neither shalt thou misplace thy 

 modifiers. 



5. Thou shalt not commit monotony. 



6. Thou shalt not cloud thy message with a miasma of technical jargon. 



7. Thou shalt not hide the fruits of thy research beneath excess verbiage; 

 neither shalt thou obscure thy conclusions with vague generalities. 



8. Thou shalt not resent helpful advice from thy editors, reviewers, and 

 critics. 



9. Thou shalt consider also the views of the layman, for his is an insight 

 often unknown to technocrats. 



10. Thou shalt write and rewrite without tiring, for such is the key to 

 improvement. 



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