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by CalChris 1482 days ago
Anything by Rachel Carson.

Anything by Donald Knuth. He even teaches good writing in Mathematical Writing.

I always thought IBM held a high standard for their writing. So anything from the IBM System/370 Principles of Operation to their IBM Journal of Research and Development would be good.

Lately, I've been reading Algorithms by Dasgupta, et al and those boys can write.