Pour Madeleine, 7 ans (et pas pour Samantha, Ante cinq ans)
Par Yves Duel, lundi 27 mars 2006 à 09:10 :: EEEEcrire :: #275 :: rss
Ma fille, t'as intérêt à obéir.
je vous le remets si vous avez la flemme d'aller voir, et une connec aussi chiante que la mienne :
Writing for Busy People Back when I was in University, many of the lecturers stressed time and time again the importance of succinct, well organized writing. They said over and over that this was the best way to have your thoughts read and understood by decision makers. In fact, they scared us by saying that 70% of us would become managers sooner or later!
Well, I can tell you that's sage advice. It's great when people make contributions in the form of ideas and proposals, but it's even better when they're written for busy people. Here are some examples:
Making important points up front Clear taxonomy of headings, and lots of them Writing clearly and succinctly No long, unbroken paragraphs or tracts of text. Preferring bulleted lists with clear points to paragraphs. Use of emphasis in formatting to make important things clear
These days, I find I don't have a lot of time to read everything carefully, so the better structured a document is, the more I get out of it. I frequently find I miss entire subsections or points of documents, even when there's relatively little text, because of incomplete organization. My eyes definitely glaze over when i see a large block of unbroken text with few headings. At the very least, it'd be very helpful if folk would structure their thoughts into: "Problem" and "Proposed Solution".
Before you post, stop and think if you've written something in a way that'll allow others to get the most out of it. Communicating your ideas effectively means you may get a clearer and quicker response from other people.
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1. Le lundi 27 mars 2006 à 17:45, par Samantha
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