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For your book; You wrote about how to address high level goals (write an interesting blog) which depend on low level details like verb agreement. My answer to y
by whitten 5y ago
For your book; You wrote about how to address high level goals (write an interesting blog) which depend on low level details like verb agreement.
My answer to you is : hyperlinks.
In your high level chapter, mention various skills like verb agreement followed by a icon for "detailed glossary" skill that links to your low level details about how to do verb agreement. Then if someone doesn't know how to do it, they can click the link.
- mtlynch 5y agoThanks for reading! To give a more concrete example, one of the things I want to talk about is "hooks." The first few sentences of any piece of writing should convince the reader that the rest of the piece is worth their time. That applies to blog posts, design documents, emails, tutorials, etc. I understand what you're saying about how I could bury a foundational topic in a glossary, but "hooks" are a topic that I think 80% of my readers don't understand, so it feels weird to bury it later in the book rather than introduce it early and then talk about higher level things that depend on it.
- all2 5y agoMost textbooks written start with building blocks and work up to higher abstractions; so putting first things first makes sense in this case.