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Writing for Online Readers :
When you write for people who will most likely be reading your text on a screen, your writing needs to be adjusted to their situation in many ways. Reading online is more difficult, both visually and cognitively. So whatever you can do to make the text on the screen more easily accessible to the reader's eyes and brain is probably a good idea. Reading online also takes a little longer than reading on paper and thus people want online documents to be shorter as well.
Here are some tips for adjusting your writing for online readers: All of these adaptations apply to email as well, with the addition of a strong emphasis on brevity. No one wants to read a piece of email that runs on for more than the equivalent of about 40 lines (one or two screens on many computers). Further guidelines for email are explained in the rest of this chapter. To continue the section on Sending Electronic Communications, 2. Emails Dos and Don’ts 3. Handling Casual Correspondence 4. Handling Professional and Academic Correspondence 5. Attachments Successful Writing Index |
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