| | We're reading a speech by Robert Horn, who developed the technique of information mapping. Information mapping is a system for presenting information in a highly structured, piecemeal manner which has been tested and developed to make the information in question as easy to assimilate as possible. Now, all this sounds great and all, but when he starts talking about how the paragraph is an ineffective unit of text, I get a little bit defensive. ("Hey, don't be dissin' the paragraph! Let's throw down, you and me! LET'S GO RIGHT NOW, COME ON! WALL OF TEXT ATTACK!" *lens flare, whoosing anime lines* And so forth.)
I've grown up with the paragraph. I work in paragraphs. He argues that the paragraph is an ill-defined thing (which I completely disagree with) and that they are too cluttered with extraneous writing (derp, that's the writer's fault). But I can't argue with the science, and if "information blocks" have been experimentally proven superior to the paragraph, then I guess I better move out of the way, because I'm a creature of paragraphs. Besides, it's just technical/expository writing, it's not like he's trying to uproot creative writing too.
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