{"id":310,"date":"2008-04-17T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T12:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-04-19T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T10:03:47","slug":"its-still-one-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/its-still-one-point\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still one point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snap_preview\">\n<p>When writing a list of ideas or tips, it is worth making sure each one has enough value to be in the list &#8211; it is better to read a short list of valuable ideas than a long list of mostly junk surrounding a few good ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re calling your list something like \u201ctop ten tips\u201d or \u201c101 things to do with cheese\u201d, don\u2019t get tempted to make the list longer just so the title seems more impressive. Your credibility will suffer if the list doesn\u2019t provide the help or interest people were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>What I find even more annoying is a list of say 20 things which actually turns out to be a list of 10 or 15 things. I\u2019m not sure if these writers are deliberately trying to plump out a short list or don\u2019t realise how repetitive they are being, but either way it wastes my time and I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the common ways I\u2019ve seen people repeat list items\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>giving the same point in different terms. For example, \u201cuse good spelling and grammar\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t misspell words or use bad grammar\u201d as two separate points &#8211; obviously, they mean exactly the same thing!<\/li>\n<li>making the same point in different words so it almost seems a different point. For instance \u201cremember to market your existing customers as well as potential customers\u201d is really the same as \u201cdon\u2019t neglect your current customers in word of mouth campaigns\u201d in a list of ideas for treating customers well<\/li>\n<li>breaking one point into two points &#8211; neither point fully makes sense alone, but if they are long enough they can look acceptable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are there are other common repetitions or problems with lists that you have come across? What has been your reaction to these annoyances?<\/p>\n<p>Happy writing!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When writing a list of ideas or tips, it is worth making sure each one has enough value to be in the list &#8211; it is better to read a short list of valuable ideas than a long list of mostly junk surrounding a few good ideas. Even if you\u2019re calling your list something like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,57,59,60],"tags":[194,135,195,196,116,197,198,199,200,201,1721],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-newsletter-content","category-web-content","category-writing","tag-breaking","tag-credibility","tag-impressive","tag-list","tag-long","tag-points","tag-short","tag-terms","tag-valuable","tag-words","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}