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		redthrowaway on Dec 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paul Graham and not being as right as he could be ... There's a kind of cosmic internet irony attached to throwing a tl;dr on an article about writing good essays.

andrewflnr on Dec 3, 2011 | [–]

A woefully inadequate tl;dr at that. A real summary would be nice though. In another piece of irony, I think it would have benefited from a thesis statement. It's hard to tell what it's really saying, at least after the first run-through.

derleth on Dec 3, 2011 | [–]

Every academic paper has an abstract.

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