White space is that blank area on a printed page. White space provides eye relief to the reader. Pick up most single-spaced legal documents, for example, and you’ll usually find very little white space—little eye relief. As a result, readers tend to avoid such documents. When was the last time you took out your life insurance policy or the deed to the house and read it for pleasure?
By creating white space in a piece of writing, you make it more readable and, thus, it will be read more often. Also, if well formatted with white space, your document will look more organized, leaving a much better impression on the reader. That is very important in business.
To create white space and to order your writing, try these tips: ...
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