stereotypes

[kelley]

At 01:41 PM 5/31/01 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>At 11:38 AM 5/31/01 -0400, kelley wrote:
> >what i use to be a student with.  i didn't present them for your approval,
> >but so that you might learn something.
>
>
>Then it was not very effective.  Most people will not read anything that
>exceeds 1 screen of text, unless they have a good reason to do so.  In the
>good old school of writing, the first paragraph of an essay had to present
>such a reason.  Assuming that people will read anything simply because it
>is written is a bit unrealistic, to say the least.  Yet another reason to
>make a succinct argument instead of inundating audience with cut-and-paste
>computer output.
>
>wojtek

yeah, well you scrolled thru to the end, didn't ya.

kelley