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Q&A Why do authors start a paragraph in an indirect way?

Yes, the paragraph is explicitly comparing Drew Houston to Steve Jobs, in both dress and demeanor. It's an artistic way of dropping in the information. It varies sentence structure, and sometimes...

posted 11y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T02:59:00Z (about 5 years ago)
Yes, the paragraph is explicitly comparing Drew Houston to Steve Jobs, in both dress and demeanor.

It's an artistic way of dropping in the information. It varies sentence structure, and sometimes you can't get that description into the paragraph another way and have it read smoothly.

Describing how the person is dressed for a presentation can be important if the person is not wearing standard office attire. Particularly in this case, Houston was wearing an outfit which deliberately invoked the one Steve Jobs wore for practically every Apple conference, which I'm sure was not accidental.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2013-07-12T10:58:37Z (over 11 years ago)
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