One of the most common weaknesses I see in day-to-day writing is poor logical flow from one idea or point to the next. This usually takes the form of a bunch of seemingly unrelated phrases thrown together with little or no sense of sequence, continuity, or relativity. I call it “disconnected writing”, and it’s all around us.
I see many blatant examples of disconnected writing every day in the newspaper. I also hear it on the radio and TV news on a regular basis. In fact, when I come across an item containing this type of writing I often find myself asking more questions at the end of the item than it answered for me in the first place. It’s especially frustrating when the way an item is reported raises very obvious questions that just about anyone would naturally ask, yet it doesn’t answer or even acknowledge those questions.
Are you guilty of “disconnected writing”? To find out exactly what it is and how to overcome it, keep on reading…
