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Title: Complex art
Review: The "Art of Scientific Writing" has not yet served me much as a concise reference. It is quite difficult to navigate through its 500+ pages to actually find what you are looking for. More than once I did not even find information on basic or essential issues (e.g. proofreading symbols). Instead, it elaborates at length on trivialities or somewhat outdated writing approaches/techniques that in most cases could be summarized on 1/10th of the space. Therefore, it either seems to address a readership that I have not yet met or tries to be an artwork per se. Otherwise, the enthusiastic editorial reviews (has anyone of the reviewers actually tried to make use of the book?) and the 5* ratings throughout this review section stays incomprehensible to me.
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