The secret to keeping readers hooked:
Formatting.
Here's a 4-step guide on how to flawlessly format any piece of writing: https://t.co/AWbVToRj5n
The secret to keeping readers hooked: Formatting. Here's a 4-step guide on how to flawlessly format any piece of writing: https://t.co/AWbVToRj5n
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
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Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
gilest.org: Clarity hacks
All of my best-performing lists used this technique where each subhead was a sentence/thought in itself, so that if all a reader did was skim the subheads, they’d get the gist of the entire article.) “Better”
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
ensuring your headlines are fit for the purpose. Make a promise, a specific reason to stick around. Now write it down in 10 words or less.
Liam Veitch • Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer
Uses lists and bullets whenever possible. Tweets are small, which means you need to figure out how to compress a lot of information into a teeny tiny container. One of the easiest ways to do this is to swap prose for lists. Besides, readers enjoy “skimming” bullets way more than they do sifting through prose. As a rule of thumb: anytime you have a ... See more