/(Note for 2004: to all people trained in speed reading. I would recommend skipping this post. I was trained in poetry and theology. I do not write for speed readers. Cheers. REH)/
Why can't all the printed matter that *is* meant for speed reading be so organized that the reader doesn't need to know how to speed-read?
"You know": start with an abstract. Have the first paragraph of each chapter summarize the chapter, the first sentence of each paragraph summarize the paragraph, etc.?
Anything that can be speed-read probably should not have been written "that way" in the first place. The "distilled" version (per above) *should* require real engagement with each of its [mercifully few...] words.
Conversely, every sentence really should "count" in text that is not meant to be speed-read.
So, maybe, if used *intelligently* (a use it may not encourage!), PowerPoint may have constructive potential after all (pace Edward Tufte).
Now to read what you wrote....
\brad mcormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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