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.