{"id":210,"date":"2022-04-19T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=210"},"modified":"2022-08-22T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:44:10","slug":"4-3-using-lists","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/chapter\/4-3-using-lists\/","title":{"raw":"4.3 Using Lists","rendered":"4.3 Using Lists"},"content":{"raw":"Lists are an easy way to show readers the connections between ideas. Bullet points often draw the reader\u2019s attention, so they\u2019re the perfect organizational aid for helping a reader to see the next steps or important recommendations. Lists also remove the need for awkward transition words like \u2018firstly\u2019 and \u2018secondly.\u2019 To write effective lists:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Use parallelism:<\/strong>\u00a0Again, if you start a pattern, you should continue it.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Keep between 3 to 6 bullet points:\u00a0<\/strong>Too many bullet points are hard for readers to follow.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Punctuate the list effectively<\/strong>: If you\u2019re using a paragraph list, put a colon after the topic sentence, then capitalize the first word.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWhen you write your list do not forget to include a sentence or phrase introducing the items in the list as done in Activity 4.2.\r\n<h3>[h5p id=\"46\"]<\/h3>\r\n<sup>Activity 4.2 | Using Lists<\/sup>\r\n\r\nLearn more about how to punctuate bulleted lists from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plainenglish.co.uk\/punctuating-bulleted-lists.html\">Plain English Campaign<\/a>.","rendered":"<p>Lists are an easy way to show readers the connections between ideas. Bullet points often draw the reader\u2019s attention, so they\u2019re the perfect organizational aid for helping a reader to see the next steps or important recommendations. Lists also remove the need for awkward transition words like \u2018firstly\u2019 and \u2018secondly.\u2019 To write effective lists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use parallelism:<\/strong>\u00a0Again, if you start a pattern, you should continue it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep between 3 to 6 bullet points:\u00a0<\/strong>Too many bullet points are hard for readers to follow.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Punctuate the list effectively<\/strong>: If you\u2019re using a paragraph list, put a colon after the topic sentence, then capitalize the first word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you write your list do not forget to include a sentence or phrase introducing the items in the list as done in Activity 4.2.<\/p>\n<h3>\n<div id=\"h5p-46\">\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-46\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"46\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Ch 4 List\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<p><sup>Activity 4.2 | Using Lists<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how to punctuate bulleted lists from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plainenglish.co.uk\/punctuating-bulleted-lists.html\">Plain English Campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-210","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":203,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/210\/revisions\/1193"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/203"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/210\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/businesswritingessentials2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}