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As a bit of a meta point, I find it really distracting when authors make random sentences bold. What you believe to be important is not necessarily what I'll fi
by bastawhiz 8y ago
As a bit of a meta point, I find it really distracting when authors make random sentences bold. What you believe to be important is not necessarily what I'll find important, and the added emphasis breaks my flow.
- seanwilson 8y agoI'm assuming it's more to help with skim reading.
- posterboy 8y agoThis is best done using the first sentence of a paragraph. Make a statement first and support it with the rest of the paragraph. At least that's a style judges use on verdicts. That way I can skim a long text easily enough. The opposite is having a conclusion at the end. That's used for opinions. A severe disagreement (not to say error) can be found faster if building an argument from the ground up. If your conclusion is somewhere in the middle and scattered all over the place, you might want to highlight that indeed. I prefer stream of conscioussness for quick notes, but bringing it into a proper format can help to refine the argument.
- jimmy1 8y agoPlacing emphasis on things is commonplace. Sometimes it's in the form of a literary device such as hyperbole and sometimes it's done typographically. You shouldn't read it as being "random" but accept it as part of the works. The author clearly intended to draw attention to those sentences and given it is his or her article, it should be accepted as part of the article and the overall message attempting to be conveyed.
- bastawhiz 8y agoI'm fine with it when there's one or two. Every paragraph does not need an emphasized sentence.