Paragraph, RIP

[Craig Good]

In The Guardian Andy Bodle asks the musical question, Is the writing on the wall for the paragraph?

I find myself largely in agreement with his plea. Perhaps due to my cinematic immersion I think of even reading as a temporal art form, and use paragraphs almost exclusively for rhythm.

[Craig Good]

But, meanwhile, Scrabble just got a lot easier.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/us/scrabble-new-words/index.html

[jack saunders]

When I was at the Berkeley Journalism school in the 70's, the professional advice was to paragraph after every sentence.....on the theory that you were over-writing and over-complicating if you had multi-sentence paragraphs.  I started analyzing the newspaper journalism of the day and found that was pretty much the trick they all used.  Of course the New Yorker and other such venues did have literary style paragraphing, but newspaper copy ... where the idea was to boil it down to essentials, used paragraphing to signal that the previous point had been entirely discharged and dispatched.

 

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Subject: [Ipse Dixit] Paragraph, RIP

In The Guardian Andy Bodle asks the musical question, Is the writing on the wall for the paragraph?

I find myself largely in agreement with his plea. Perhaps due to my cinematic immersion I think of even reading as a temporal art form, and use paragraphs almost exclusively for rhythm.

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[Larry Rosenthal]

Enthralled readers, for whom a writer yearns
Perhaps prefer more than carriage returns
~ O.C. Dragonwell

On 5/25/2015 3:37 PM, jack saunders wrote: