Changes for page Simple sentences
Last modified by Lizzie Bruce on 2020/01/11 23:51
To version 3.3
edited by Lizzie Bruce
on 2019/04/23 17:19
on 2019/04/23 17:19
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Added specific link on simple sentences to the Ann Wylie reference
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... ... @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ 74 74 75 75 [['Content design'>>url:https://contentdesign.london/book/]], Sarah Richards, 2017 76 76 77 -[['Short sentences boost readability .Nearly 140 years of research proves it'>>https://www.wyliecomm.com/2018/08/short-sentences-boost-readability/]] A. Wylie,a collection of studies since 1880s,201877 +[['Short sentences boost readability, Nearly 140 years of research proves it'>> https://www.wyliecomm.com/2018/08/short-sentences-boost-readability/]] A. Wylie, 2018 78 78 79 79 [['Indlish: The book for every English-speaking Indian'>>http://www.vivagroupindia.com/frmBookDetail.aspx?BookId=5020&Status=C]], J. Sanyal, 2006. Book. 80 80
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... ... @@ -1,1 +1,0 @@ 1 -It's my experience that when you say to people "X should be on average Y long", they hear "X should be at least Y long". They get hung up on the number and think they have to reach it. I could absolutely imagine that people who are not experienced (usually exactly the ones who want clear and explicit guidance) will see this and make sentences *longer* because theirs is only 10 words. TL;DR: I don't think is bad advice, but I do think people are bad at averaging and bad at understanding that X limit does not mean "write X much" :) - Date
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... ... @@ -1,1 +1,0 @@ 1 -Chris in Oslo again - Comment
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... ... @@ -1,1 +1,0 @@ 1 -I'm trying to think about how I would write guidelines in a way that would mitigate what I wrote above. My experience has been that people remember the number much better than the precise thing you were trying to convey with the number (which is why we have truthy-but-wrong memes like "you only use 10% of your brain.) I guess I'm missing something above that says "Make sentences as short as possible by introducing one idea at a time" or similar? - Date
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