[wyclif]

My AP high school English teacher taught me "garbage in, garbage out." His point was that if you want to write high level prose, you need to be reading the best prose stylists and be influenced by them. Read the best writers and stop reading garbage.

[sramsay]

English professor here. This is the secret to becoming a terrific writer: exposing yourself to excellent writing. Nothing replaces this, and it works in every genre from technical writing to lyric poetry.

[wyclif]

Who do you think are the best technical writers? I have a much better sense of who they are in literature, but in technical writing I'd like to read some examples.