Formatting your writing so key info can be scanned easily and read quickly is an extremely underrated skill. Often, but not always, whether a text is formatted for scannability determines whether 10% or 100% of readers understand your main points. The information formatting rule of thumb In general, people visually scan text in the order: Top of document > Start of sections > Bolded words > Start of lines This implies that, for best scannability, we should place an overview at the top so the ...
