Are you reading this or are you skimming it?

It turns out we don't read web content, we scan it. And reading from a screen is physically slower than reading from paper.

Conclusion: writing for the web is different than other writing.  Taking out half the words doubles retention.

This short article will give you what you need to know to write better web pages, blogs and emails. 

Read the full article here:

(Grove, Tim.  "History Bytes: Writing for the Web."  AASLH History News 63, no. 4 (Autumn 2008): 5-6.)

Article courtesy of AASLH.