3 Written communications
We process large amounts of written text every day. The newspapers we read, the messages on advertising hoardings, texts, emails, instant messages, junk mail and reports – these are just a fraction of the written communications that we deal with. Small wonder then, that we often skim-read and don’t give important material the attention it deserves or consider our own messages adequately.
So fast, spontaneous and informal is the medium that many fire emails off without a second thought. The restraining influences of stamp-buying, envelope-licking and letter-delivering are gone. Now you just flick one off the wrist and see what happens.
Gary Younge, Guardian Unlimited www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,417599,00.html ...
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