Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up Your Memo

Re:Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up ... by cmdkeen on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:42AM (#10439305)

This concept is will known in the military as BLUF - bottom line up front. Not an abstract or introduction, putting the key recommendation or outcome at the beginning. It falls in and out of fashion but as with newspapers it helps you work out what you want to read further.

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Re:Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up ... by dizzy3gg on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:53AM (#10439390)

Known on the internet as TL;DR

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Re:Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up ... by rdancer on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:20PM (#10441757)

Tl;dr is an antipattern, and it's easy to see why.

Lead with a strong point. Pique youre reader's interest. Then, and only then, will they lap up your wall of text. Tl;dr is a gag, a joke, mockery of bad writing style. If you find yourself using it in a serious way, as a crutch, stop, rewrite, don't go down that path.

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Re:Paul Tudor Jones to Staff: Learn to Write or I'll Rip Up ... by xtrumanx on Friday October 23, 2015 @12:00PM (#10439438)

TL;DR doesn't always appear at the beginning which is what cmdkeen was talking about.

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