PETERSON EWRITING STYLE

This chapter is written
in PETERSON EWRITING style.

Purpose:

* Enhanced use of your mind's abilities.

* Efficient transmission of ideas and facts.

Arrange thoughts visually.

Add visual impact.

Unique style:

Takes advantage of your skills
and experience recognizing
repetitive scenarios on television
and in books.

Helps you remember related details.

Enhances memory.

Choice of simpler rules.

No punctuation or simplified punctuation.

Short sentences save time.

Phrase groups reduce page clutter.
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WHY DIDN'T WE DO THIS BEFORE?

Paper expensive.

We tried to cram too much on the page.

Now we have inexpensive cyberspace
for our writing and storage.

NEWSPAPERS HAD THE RIGHT IDEA
ALL ALONG.

Narrow columns are so much easier
to view and understand.

Wider columns on editorials
are still harder to read.
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DISCUSSION PETERSON EWRITING

Avoids some of the mechanical
difficulties of reading:

Long descriptive sentences.

Sentences with too many semicolons
and commas cause regressions.
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PROCEDURES

Write short sentences.

Start sentences at left of the page.

Change page margins
to create narrow columns.

Reformat your files
to make them into narrow columns.
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QUICKER WRITING FOR INTERNET

Easily understood and remembered.

Many sentences are composed
of two or more phrases.

Many sentences have a natural pause
or break between phrases.

Most break between the subject
and predicate.

Divide the sentence where it feels
short and comfortable.
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Advice for writers

WRITERS CAN HELP THEIR READERS

Writers can write clusters or lists of:

Meaningful phrases descriptive adjectives
arguments steps to take pitfalls
to avoid predictable consequences.

Writers can choose words within
the reader's experience.
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WHY DOES IT WORK?

EXPECTANT MINDS

Anticipatory abilities of the mind.

Common writing expectancy.

How many times have you started
to read a sentence and knew
after the first two words
how the sentence would turn out?

If you are like most people
it has been countless times.

You're so familiar
with language patterns you can
anticipate what they will say.

From this limited information
you make conclusions and decisions.

Preparedness lets you make decisions.
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WE HAVE UNBELIEVABLY FAST MINDS

THE MIND MAKES QUICK CONVERSIONS
OF INFORMATION
to understanding
to action
to options
to memory.

It is within milliseconds when needed.

When is it needed?

When you are in danger.

When you are listening.

When you are reading.

When you are speaking.

When you are writing.

The mind predicts what
the author will say.

The mind fills in
missing information.

This is not hard to do.

Writing styles are very predictable.
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Phrases and sentences
tell us what to expect.

Sentence styles are used repeatedly.

Many sentences are instructions.

Readers decide your objective.

Focus on your needs.

Use your:

* Prediction skills
* Anticipation skills
* Inference skills
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We can take

ASSISTING THE MIND
IN THE THINKING PROCESS

ABSORB MORE ACCURATE THOUGHTS
IN LESS TIME

PROBLEM

Complex writing styles can be confusing
to the reader.

SOLUTION SIMPLER RULES

More understandable.

Quicker thinking responses.
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ADVANCED WRITING

Suggestions for writers:

Write Meaning Phrases.

Present the main idea phrases
for easier searching or reading.
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Changing page formats
to improve information transfer.

Helping your vision.

Quotations about eye movements.
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PETERSON EWRITING STYLE
COMMENTARY

Vision and the mind.

Eye camera studies show slow readers
making hard fixations
in predictable patterns.

Why?

Page is too wide?

Fast readers may make
more random fixations.

Why?

Mind is choosing where
to saccade the eye focus?

Some experts say
the eye is stopping on:

Unusual words.

Capital letters.

Unusual punctuation.
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EWRITING RESULT

Effective arrangement of words for:

understanding,
retention retrieval of material.

Solution:

Make it easy for the mind.

Narrow columns group thoughts
near the foveal area
of more accurate acuity.
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The brain is a good guesser.

There is a hole in the center
of our vision.

The mind instantly decides
what should be in the blind spot
so that it gets the whole picture.

The mind creates the rest
of the picture.

In effect it overlaps
the blind spot so that we can
make decisions.
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FOVEAL AREA MORE DISCUSSION

Here are more unprovable
but likely answers:

VISION LIMITS

We have the ability
to use additional information
beyond the high acuity area.

Q.
Is this because
the mind has registered
the words?

Q.
Did the mind infer
the unspoken
parts of the sentence?

Q.
Does later redundancy by the author
confirm our inferences?

Certainly it may help but not always.
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REDUNDANCY

Role of redundancy?

Billions of inferences
are proven by author redundancy.

A.
Redundancy can double or quadruple
reading time.

A.
Redundancy may not clear
up the questions.

A.
Redundancy can cause readers
to become confused.

ASSOCIATED THOUGHTS

Groups of thoughts
are chained together:
To converse
To recognize persons
To recognize situations
To drive
To eat
To sleep.

Visually making the books
easier to read.

LESS IS MORE
LESS PUNCTUATION
ENABLES READERS
ENABLES WRITERS

PROBLEM

Arbitrary writing and punctuation
rules have changed markedly
in the past centuries.

Spelling rules change every week.

Language changes all the time.

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