The bullet I found the most intriguing was the one that suggested using conversational language. The sub-title stated, "Conversational writing kicks formal writing's ass." This is so true because readers are absorbed in the material as their brain interacts with what they are reading. As the article said, it is almost like a conversation between the readers' minds and what they are reading. The brain must "hold up it's end of the conversation."
I have experienced this several times as I sat in class during a lecture. My mind would hear something that I perhaps didn't agree with, and I would begin setting up an argument for why I thought differently. Even if I never had a chance to argue my own case in the classroom, I was thinking deeper and processing the information in a way I could remember. Or, perhaps I failed to fully understand a concept that was being taught, so I began thinking through it in order to ask the best question possible so I could understand it to the best of my ability.
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I wish textbooks were written like Stephen King novels..We are beginning to see the publishing companies become worries about their future-like the newspaper and automobile industries. Why shouldn't instructors select custom content (including media and web) in order to build a textbook. Do you know how many textbooks have been written for a Psychology 101 course? Some day!
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