Although, I'm not quite there yet, I feel that the more times I write a paper, the better each one will be. While our papers aren't for "big" audiences, the feedback we get, will only help our future writings. In my personal experience, if I see a news article, a magazine, a webpage, and it doesn't catch my attention when I look at it, I pass it up and don't think anything else about it. That's how we should think of our own writing, maybe an interesting title that immediately brings the reader in. Like I've said before, in writing it's not about the author, it's all about the reader.
Tyler, I will agree with you that things have to "catch" your attention before they will keep your attention. CRAP writing does just that! Your title on this post caught me and I was intrigued enough to continue to read. There is much more then repetition when it comes to CRAP writing but you are on target! Great Job!
ReplyDeleteGood point Tyler about appearance determining if you stay on a website or go to another one that is more appealing. I found myself doing this quite a bit when I was doing research for our last paper. If the information was put forth in a basic font on a white background, I often would look for other information more appealing to the eye. I never really put much though into that until we had our information on CRAP.
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