Where do YOU stand on sentence length?
Dr Geoffrey Marnell's article Does Length Matter? challenges received wisdom about sentence length. He explains an in-class experiment that he conducted using two 11-word sentences to test students' ability to recall information. He draws the conclusion that a sentence's length is of less importance than the number of ideas it contains.
His article has caused a stir, and I recommend that you read it so that when the next issue of Southern Communicator arrives on your doorstep, you can read Judy Knighton's response - with Marnell's article reposing freshly in your memory-bank.
To access the journal, you must log in to the TechCommNZ website, then select Member Area > Southern Communicator Journal.
Emma Harding