Writing and Editing Complexity Theory: Tales and Tools

TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance of writing and editing resources for complexity theory researchers, sharing personal experiences and highlighting useful tools for effective scholarly communication.

Contribution

It provides a curated list of writing and editing resources specific to complexity theory and shares practical insights from editing a specialized survey book.

Findings

Compiled a list of valuable writing resources for complexity theory

Shared practical editing experiences for scholarly books

Highlighted the importance of effective communication in research

Abstract

Each researcher should have a full shelf---physical or virtual---of books on writing and editing prose. Though we make no claim to any special degree of expertise, we recently edited a book of complexity theory surveys (Complexity Theory Retrospective II, Springer-Verlag, 1997), and in doing so we were brought into particularly close contact with the subject of this article, and with a number of the excellent resources available to writers and editors. In this article, we list some of these resources, and we also relate some of the adventures we had as our book moved from concept to reality.