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By Tung Yin

I found this site that analyzes your writing and tells you who you write like. So I plugged in a few different pieces of writing. A couple of paragraphs from a symposium article comparing the Obama and Bush Administrations' on counterterrorism got this:

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

The first four paragraphs of some fiction writing got:

I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

The instructions page for my Criminal Procedure I exam resulted in:

I write like
Daniel Defoe

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

The beginning of the first exam question got:

I write like
Ernest Hemingway

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

A recommendation letter that I wrote for a student who wanted to transfer got:

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

But a rec letter for a different student came up as Cory Doctorow. Finally, part of my annual faculty activity report:

I write like
Arthur C. Clarke

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).