Apparently I write like David Foster Wallace...
Say what?
Oh, that David Foster Wallace.
Er.
Cool.
Now you go play with "I write like"
h/t Chad - who apparently has dissociative writing disorder or something...
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Hmm. I also got David Foster Wallace.
Hmm depending upon what I put in I get David Foster Wallace and Harry Harrison (fiction), Arthur Clarke (article about monkeys in space) and most disturbingly Kurt Vonnegut for allegedly funny article about bumping into Richard Dawkins in a thunderstorm.
Isaac Asimov or James Joyce !
Wow, it is hard to think of more disparate styles than Asimov and Joyce (at least ones that'd fit into a US based web form).
I tried different pieces of writing also:
a summary paragraph for a NASA proposal gave me A.C. Clarke.
That is good.
A sample paragraph from an intro to a highly cited paper game me Edgar Allan Poe.
Hmm...
I also get a mixture depending what text I enter. I seem to write papers like Arthur C. Clarke, which is a good thing. But the introduction to my most recent NASA proposal sounds like Douglas Adams, not necessarily a good result. I also fed in a referee report, which their analyzer identified as Dan Brown (since the authors aren't supposed to know who I am, getting a different result from my public writing is probably OK, but I should worry if I start writing papers/proposals like Brown).
Well, Edgar Allen Poe for my scientific writing (??)
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I got David Foster Wallace with the first piece I submitted. I also got Charles Dickens, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, and -egads!- Stephanie Meyer (ironically, for a critique I wrote of "Twilight").