Day 232: Use short sentences for complicated ideas.

This tip is about increasing the potential for readers to understand your ideas. Here’s the central concept of this tip: If the ideas are complicated, make the writing as simple as possible. Break the discussion of the idea into individual, discrete units, and make each unit a separate sentence. This will have two results.

First, and most importantly, short sentences make the reader slow down so that he or she will pay attention to each unit of information and not skip or miss them.

广告:个人专属 VPN,独立 IP,无限流量,多机房切换,还可以屏蔽广告和恶意软件,每月最低仅 5 美元

Second, short sentences help the reader organize the information. When the information is provided as a series of short sentences, the reader can make a mental outline that helps him or her organize, remember, and understand the idea.

Because the reader will read all the details, and because the reader will organize the points you make, the reader will have a better chance to understand your complicated idea.