2010-12-30, 02:28 PM
]I saw the title of this thread and read the initial post and knew back when it only had one post it was gonna turn into something like this. Avoided looking at it until yesterday and confirmed my prediction.
One thing my 1st writing professor in college taught me was that the goal of writing for readers is to consider the audience and deliver your information in the most efficient way possible. To make sure you pack readers with as much information with as little 'fluff' as possible. There's no point in using 300 words to express what could be clearly stated in 50 for example. There's no reason to use technical words when your audience is, say, a league of young gamers and not a group of literature buffs. It's not about having the fanciest, elegant words, its about choosing your words wisely.
'Any time your work, be it an essay,article or a story, loses the interest of the targeted reader is when that particular writing has failed, anytime your targeted audience fails to understand you, your work has failed.'
You say this Jamie:
But to an extent, that's what's keeping you from being a good writer and succeeding at getting your point across. This isn't a matter of dumbing it down either, before my point gets generalized: as its clear this forum does have intelligent readers.
You cannot convince anyone if you don't counter their arguements, and not the statements related to it: such as Kevo's first point of that this will have no impact and to wait it out. Asking 'how long should we wait' does not address the arguement, which is denying that we could have any impact. This goes both ways, you both must make an understandable point and be able to understand the main points of others to make progress here.
To be on topic, i agree with Kevo: there's very little evidence showing we can influence Nexon this way. Prove this claim wrong. Once that's done, then I and possibly others will be convinced this could go somewhere.
One thing my 1st writing professor in college taught me was that the goal of writing for readers is to consider the audience and deliver your information in the most efficient way possible. To make sure you pack readers with as much information with as little 'fluff' as possible. There's no point in using 300 words to express what could be clearly stated in 50 for example. There's no reason to use technical words when your audience is, say, a league of young gamers and not a group of literature buffs. It's not about having the fanciest, elegant words, its about choosing your words wisely.
'Any time your work, be it an essay,article or a story, loses the interest of the targeted reader is when that particular writing has failed, anytime your targeted audience fails to understand you, your work has failed.'
You say this Jamie:
Quote:Seriously do I have to spoon feed an exact answer for people to understand what anything can mean?
But to an extent, that's what's keeping you from being a good writer and succeeding at getting your point across. This isn't a matter of dumbing it down either, before my point gets generalized: as its clear this forum does have intelligent readers.
You cannot convince anyone if you don't counter their arguements, and not the statements related to it: such as Kevo's first point of that this will have no impact and to wait it out. Asking 'how long should we wait' does not address the arguement, which is denying that we could have any impact. This goes both ways, you both must make an understandable point and be able to understand the main points of others to make progress here.
To be on topic, i agree with Kevo: there's very little evidence showing we can influence Nexon this way. Prove this claim wrong. Once that's done, then I and possibly others will be convinced this could go somewhere.