How to write like Socrates?

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The title of this essay is likely to make it sound as though the following is going to be another one of those self-help 'how to' books that we are nowadays bombarded with in bookshops. And in a way that's what it is - only worse, since the author obviously doesn't know what he is talking about. For isn't this supposed to be philosophy? Yet surely the body of this essay couldn't even be close to whatever the author is going to tell us would be the written equivalent to Socratic philosophising (I don't see any dialogues)? Or, if that is what he intends to make us believe, then how boring it looks; just another useless theory. However, if this is not what he is going to say, then again it seems that the author doesn't know what he is talking (or writing) about.-Or could there be a difference between kinds of philosophy, or different ways of writing philosophy?