Use parallel structure in lists to increase reading efficiency
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Use parallel structure in lists to increase reading efficiency

Bydr.kim

Those offering advice to professionals who write have long suggested that similar ideas should appear in similar (or parallel) form. In fact, the advice appears in one of the earliest business writing textbooks, first published in the U.S. in 1916. But I’m committed to offering you guidance for writing successfully at work based on quality evidence about the…

Manage what your readers think you mean with effective paragraphs
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Manage what your readers think you mean with effective paragraphs

Bydr.kim

Paragraph construction affects whether — and how fast — readers get a writer’s intended meaning. But getting the visual units (white space surrounding lines of text) to match the semantic units (what linguists call “episodes” made up of sentences) in a message isn’t that easy. Research shows readers aren’t good at dividing a document back into the…