RE: Death knell for quality content?

["Will Sansbury" <wsansbury -at- alpha -dot- ipswitch -dot- com>]

Lauren wrote:
> I think that what is happening is that people want to see 
> articles written by people like themselves and not articles 
> that seem like they were written by an expert or an outsider 
> looking in.  The average person has average writing ability 
> and will make grammatical and other writing errors.  So, 
> content that is less than perfect is more palatable and 
> approachable than content that is polished.  

"Expert outsider" and "polished" are hardly synonymous!

Good writing removes any inflated sense of its own worth (as "expert
outsider" implies) in favor of clarity, concision, and transparency. I
wouldn't call writing that lacks those three qualities "polished."

The thing about good writing is that when people read it, they don't have to
stop to figure out if it's good or not. The writing itself should recede so
that the message, and not its delivery, occupies the reader's thoughts.

Will Sansbury

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