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It still mildly infuriates me that the link text doesn't simply expand the acronym. Infinitely better: Bottom Line Up Front: A military standard to make wr
by EForEndeavour 7y ago
It still mildly infuriates me that the link text doesn't simply expand the acronym. Infinitely better:
Bottom Line Up Front: A military standard to make writing more powerful
- SllX 7y agoYou enforced speed and lost clarity. You wrote “...to make writing more powerful.” which states nothing of value while “...designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.” tells you precisely that it was designed with the objectives of enforcing speed and enforcing clarity in the specific contexts of [military] reports and [military] emails. With BLUF the burden is on the writer to be clear and concise, not on the reader to make the connections the writer hopes the reader will make. Leading with BLUF and expanding the acronym later in the sentence leads with the form in which you are most likely to encounter BLUF discussed in a professional context rather than expecting the reader to read the expanded form first and make the connection that “BLUF” is the contracted form of “Bottom Line Up Front” and “Bottom Line Up Front” is the expanded form of “BLUF”.
- workaway 7y agoHe's referring to expanding the acronym in the headline. He didn't write “...to make writing more powerful," the original author did.
- SllX 7y agoJesus Christ how did I miss that? I’ll own that mistake and leave my original comment up unedited as a testimony to my unobservant off the cuff commentary.