Re: Variety in Tech Writing (was: Display, Displays, or Appears)

Subject: Re: Variety in Tech Writing (was: Display, Displays, or Appears)
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:32:51 -0700

Keith Hood wrote:
>> Actually, it does hurt. In the third sentence, for
>> instance, the change to future tense and reversal
>> of order to "numbers and letters" will require me to
>> slow down while my mind confirms that this
>> requirement really is the same as the one I learned earlier.

> The double-take time that you call "cognitive load" is...what,
> maybe as long as 1.5 seconds?

"You can't kill time without injuring eternity." --unknown

HTH,

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com




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