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Subject:RE: Wood eye? Wood eye? Tin ear! Tin ear! From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:07:32 -0500
I, too, tend to subvocalize, unless I'm really, really
concentrating on NOT doing so. Thus I tend to hear
the sounds and rythms of what I'm reading... or writing.
That might explain why I favor more commas in my writing
than do some of my speedier reviewers. I like to make
explicit the pauses that I "hear" in my own writing.
Anybody else?
/kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Stockman [mailto:stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:46 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Wood eye? Wood eye? Tin ear! Tin ear!
>
>
> At 01:34 PM 12/19/2000 -0500, Dick Margulis wrote:
> >What I took away from this interview was that some people
> read with their
> >eyes alone, and others listen to their subvocalization of
> the words on the
> >page. I know, for example, that I do the latter, making me a
> much slower
> >reader than someone in the former group.
>
> In college I had a blind professor who would ask us to visit
> his office
> when each paper was due to read it aloud to him and his tape
> recorder. He
> would use that to grade the paper and type up comments to
> return to us.
>
> I learned from this a rule that I use in all of my writing:
> if it doesn't
> sound good out loud, it doesn't work on paper, either. I
> haven't seen an
> exception to this rule yet, and reading aloud has helped me
> find a lot of
> clunky writing of my own.
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