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Date Posted: 01:58:30 10/03/01 Wed
Author: Ann Rippin
Subject: Bullet points

Biting the bullet?
Further to our short discussion about the use of bullet points in
written assignments, I'd like to suggest that the bullet point has
now found a place beyond the short, punchy (and shallow) standard
management report. I did some editing work for the Environment Agency
a few years back, which involved me in discussion with one of their
corporate publication style gurus. We eventually agreed that the
bullet point is OK in "serious" text. It is, for example, an ideal
way of dealing with consecutive clauses in a complex argument, laying
out the iteration of points in a clear way on the page. Much easier
to navigate than a blizzard of semicolons. I find bullet points ideal
for setting out and analysing the components of an argument, a slight
shift of block text towards the diagramatic, with attendant
clarification. An aid to legibility and critical analysis.

Here is the first part of my correspondence with David about bullet points. I will post my response if I can still find it!

Feel free to join in.

Ann

When we consider the travesties that now pass for acceptable usage in
the Grauniad, it does not seem entirely unreasonable to suggest, even
at the, ahem, University of Bristol, that the bullet point may be
acceptable contemporary usage. A point to which I am sure we will
return!

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