The boldface Band-Aid

October 15, 2021

Some writers use boldface text to emphasize a point, like this:

blah blah blah the meeting will be on Tuesday at 3 pm. Blah blah blah

They do this because after writing several paragraphs of unimportant filler, they notice the main point is hidden, so they make it bold.

A better solution would be to delete the filler:

blah blah blah The meeting will be on Tuesday at 3 pm. Blah blah blah

Rapid forms of communication (email, slides, SMS, ...) should only contain important text.


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