Friday, March 15, 2013

Leaving out the parts that people skip

Where do you get your information? Do you have "issues?" Did you "share" something with someone today?

I talked with a woman this week who said she got her information from watching Pat Robertson and Fox News. She said her soul had been to Heaven. (It was one time, in church, and didn't last too long). I asked her where her soul is located. She came back the next day and told me it was "irrevalent."

William Zinsler points out that

People now get their information mainly from random images on a screen and from random messages in their ears, and it no longer occurs to them that writing is linear and sequential, sentence B must follow sentence A.

Do you enjoy writing? Do you enjoy reading good writing?

George Will writes in the New York Post about the craft of writing, citing Zinsler as someone we should read.

Read more here: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_craft_of_writing_english_well_KsnRrg1qJXoCn9g3CyDnQO

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