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First, effective writing will almost always restate the main idea somehow Effective corporate writing. This goes back to the era 50 years ago when public spea
by reaperducer 2y ago
First, effective writing will almost always restate the main idea somehow
Effective corporate writing.
This goes back to the era 50 years ago when public speakers were taught "Tell me what you're going to tell me, then tell me what you're telling me, then tell me what you just told me."
It works fine for certain long-form speeches, but as the length of the document/talk decreases, so does the need for repetition.
For the length of 90% of what's on the internet, repetition becomes redundancy and nuisance filler.
- thwarted 2y agoNot just length, but interactivity too. That suggestion makes sense for a long monologue that is ephemeral, but in the modern age where the content consumer is in the driver's seat and very little is actually "live", they can scroll/seek back, rereading or relistening to earlier portion, and review the summary and comments to regain context.
- sebastiennight 2y agoYour message above contains a quote, and four sentences. Sentence 1: hints that the quote is wrong, because only corporate writing is repetitive. Sentence 2: expands on this: corporate speech has been repetitive on purpose since the 70s. Sentence 3: contrasts corporate writing, which is repetitive, with shorter content, which does not need to be repetitive. Sentence 4: concludes that the quote above is wrong, because most Internet content (which is not corporate writing) does not need to be repetitive.
- robwwilliams 2y agoInitially snarky/amusing but the post you critique is a well written paragraph in which there is a clear progression and elaboration on one major idea.
- watwut 2y agoI do not think this is fair evaluation. Sentence 1: specified that quote is about one specific kind of speech. Sentence 2: explains origins of the quote - history. It is the history part that makes this sentence valuable and adds something to the reader (me). Sentence 3: states that this is not effective to the kind of content we talk about - internet articles. Sentence 4: concludes that repetition is irrelevant and wrong. ----------------------- The way you tl;dr it, the poster would need to completely change the topic to "not repeat themselves". What they did was saying something new with each sentence, just keeping the "repetition" topic on.
- sebastiennight 2y agoOk that's fair. Your summary is more accurate and gets the GP's point across better. Thanks