From: utzoo!dciem!mmt
Newsgroups: net.flame
Title: Re: small is better
Article-I.D.: dciem.197
Posted: Sat Feb 26 21:45:06 1983
Received: Sat Feb 26 22:37:16 1983
References: rlgvax.1073

It is not true that good readers use cues like upper-case less than
do poor readers; they just NEED these cues less, and can do OK without them.
The poor readers need all the help they can get, but good readers
are even better when everything is as expected. The ability to read
groups of words at a time, and to skip irrelevant little words actually
depends to some extent on cues such as capitalization and spaces
around punctuation. So please capitalize, use paragraphs, and in any
other way help us poor (good) readers.
		Martin Taylor
P.S. Look for "The Psychology of Reading", by my wife and myself,
to be published by Academic Press in about 3 months.