Re: inuitive writing - a suggestion...

From: RJH (idontwant_at_ny.spam)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:10:29 +1300

Interesting - to a non-expert like me. Though I am not sure how big the
problem is. You indicate it's mostly a problem for academic writers. I can
see that if they were compelled to be brief and logical, that would be a big
help for everyone. Most journal articles now are preceded by abstracts; many
longer documents have summaries. Further reduction, with the use of logical
symbols, would be helpful I guess.

What about comparisons with languages like Chinese, where there would seem
to be less linearity? David Bohm [physicist] wrote about the 'rheomode' - is
this similar to your ideas?

Regards
Ronnie H 

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"Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
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> > Text is highly inefficient from the eye-brain aspect. We read (usually)
> > much slower than we think. That is, our mind is idle most of the time
> > we read, waiting for us to get to the end of the paragraph so that it
> > can at last phrase the idea at hand to itself. This causes our mind to
> > wander, and we get diverted from what we are reading while we wait for
> > our eyes.
>
> Learn to speed read -- very few people ever learn
> anything more about reading after the third or fourth
> grade (or equivalent.)
>
> > People try to get around this problem by "scanning" - reading just
> > part of the words, and so more rapidly.
>
> That's useful but it is NOT speed reading.
>
> Competent speed readers usually get MORE
> complete comprehension than slow readers.
>
> They seldom obtain less but should that ever happen
> when reading at ten times the 'normal' rate, one
> merely re-reads the material one or more times.
>
>
>
>

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