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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7840557" data-attributes="member: 177">So, here's the thing, it isn't just impatience and disrespect.&nbsp; It isn't just your expectations that have not been met.To be effective, an author needs to consider the audience and the medium.&nbsp; The audience expects you to do that... and I'm sorry to say, you didn't do it particularly well. You put up a piece that is difficult to read and absorb, and blame their impatience?&nbsp; That... doesn't look really respectful of your readers.Some constructive bits:1) Capital letters.&nbsp; They aren't just historical convention propagated by teachers. In the spoken word, we have tone and cadence that denotes when ideas begin and end.&nbsp; That role is played by capitalization and punctuation in the written form.&nbsp; By leaving them out, you significantly increase the cognitive work required to digest your piece.&nbsp; You could fix that.2) Segmenation - Messageboards operate as casual conversations.&nbsp; Cognitively, folks approach them as conversations.&nbsp; In effect, you started this conversation by standing up and talking at folks for about seven minutes straight (the time it typically takes to speak 1000+ words aloud) before entertaining their input.&nbsp; That's not the form of a conversation.&nbsp; It is the form of a lecture.&nbsp; If folks here have lots of expertise you hope to engage, don't lecture them.&nbsp; There are several different structures you could use to avoid this large opening salvo.3) Make sure the point of the work is clear.&nbsp; State it at the beginning.&nbsp; Tell folks what problem you intend to solve, or improvement you are hoping to make, up front.&nbsp; Don't get upset at people for missing the point when you don't clearly and unambiguously tell them what the point is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7840557, member: 177"] So, here's the thing, it isn't just impatience and disrespect. It isn't just your expectations that have not been met. To be effective, an author needs to consider the audience and the medium. The audience expects you to do that... and I'm sorry to say, you didn't do it particularly well. You put up a piece that is difficult to read and absorb, and blame their impatience? That... doesn't look really respectful of your readers. Some constructive bits: 1) Capital letters. They aren't just historical convention propagated by teachers. In the spoken word, we have tone and cadence that denotes when ideas begin and end. That role is played by capitalization and punctuation in the written form. By leaving them out, you significantly increase the cognitive work required to digest your piece. You could fix that. 2) Segmenation - Messageboards operate as casual conversations. Cognitively, folks approach them as conversations. In effect, you started this conversation by standing up and talking at folks for about seven minutes straight (the time it typically takes to speak 1000+ words aloud) before entertaining their input. That's not the form of a conversation. It is the form of a lecture. If folks here have lots of expertise you hope to engage, don't lecture them. There are several different structures you could use to avoid this large opening salvo. 3) Make sure the point of the work is clear. State it at the beginning. Tell folks what problem you intend to solve, or improvement you are hoping to make, up front. Don't get upset at people for missing the point when you don't clearly and unambiguously tell them what the point is. [/QUOTE]

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