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Writing Guidelines




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


[Web Advisory Group]





Writing for the Web:
Guidelines for MIT Libraries

Use parallelisms

People like patterns

  • We grasp the information more quickly if we can anticipate the pattern.
  • We try to see patterns in information even when there are none.
  • When we have to switch patterns, we use extra mental energy.
Yes, uses parallelism :
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