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I really dislike when an article waits til the end to explain why I shouldn't care. First half of the article is all about how we should worry and care about th
by learning_still 11y ago
I really dislike when an article waits til the end to explain why I shouldn't care. First half of the article is all about how we should worry and care about this thing. Second half of the article is, "actually you should just disregard everything we just said."
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMy wife (tech writer) calls this the 'mystery novel' form of essay. She says Engineers are particularly guilty of writing that way. She was right, in my case anyway. For a while after I married her I would go through all my writing and move the last sentence in each paragraph to first. Because I did it all the time.
- hinkley 11y agoThis sounds similar to 'burying the punchline' which we are also prone to do. If you have a solution to the problem you are describing, please notify us in the first paragraph so we don't think you're just complaining.