"The Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition"

Posted by Cassius
Sep 6, 2012 at 07:41 PM

This was the title of a required text in my advanced college freshman class in 1959. It was unintelligible.

So too have some posts in recent weeks seemed to me.

Shortly after I married, my wife (of 44 years this week) explained to me what she had learned as a journalist and editor:

Short sentences.
Short paragraphs.
Provide the main point of your posting in in the first two sentences.

P.S. We’ve been married 44 years, but sometimes it feels like 45.