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It's a pet peeve of mine when articles quote their own paragraphs in big bold headings immediately below the paragraph itself. "It's a pet peeve of mine when
by biot 14y ago
It's a pet peeve of mine when articles quote their own paragraphs in big bold headings immediately below the paragraph itself.
"It's a pet peeve of mine when articles
quote their own paragraphs"
After all, didn't I just read that?
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI agree, yet this tactic pops up all the time. I suspect it keeps those with short attention spans (who can't be bothered to get through an entire page of writing) glued in better to the article. Anyone know what this "literary device" is called? "yet this tactic pops up all the time."
- evan_ 14y agoIt's called a Pull Quote. It's used in newspapers and magazines to draw you into an article as you leaf through the pages, I guess it serves basically the same purpose in blogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote
- cpressey 14y agoIt works far better in print media, in my opinion... you don't leaf through the pages of a blog.
- djKianoosh 14y agoBut some people do scroll down fast, somewhat like skimming...
- scott_s 14y agoIt works best in magazines or newspaper layouts where the pull-quote exists outside of the normal eye-path when reading the article. Then you avoid the "Hey, I just read that" moment, but still pull people in who are leafing through. But, web pages are not typically laid out in such a way to allow for that.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoIt would probably work better as a side bar in this case, since the blog layout has all that wasted space on the left.