I think this is a good subject to write about and that you can work this into a nice article if you continue to boil it down. Others have given some good (and maybe a bit harsh?) feedback. All I want to add is that for a post this long, it would be much more useful to have reference numbers (or better yet, links) within your article. I found myself initially having questions and wanting to look at references and then lost that motivation once I finally got to them. Also, I think your conclusion has too much new content.
There are plenty of very valid criticisms of my horribly writing here that have been repeated a few times each, but the one about my ‘conclusion’ adding too much new content is spot-on and original.
Does the added notes at the beginning as a replacement for the whole long thing help? Like with the shorter more immediate list of references (and the clarification of why I wanted to put that information about Michel Thomas in there, despite having to shoehorn it in)?
I think this is a good subject to write about and that you can work this into a nice article if you continue to boil it down. Others have given some good (and maybe a bit harsh?) feedback. All I want to add is that for a post this long, it would be much more useful to have reference numbers (or better yet, links) within your article. I found myself initially having questions and wanting to look at references and then lost that motivation once I finally got to them. Also, I think your conclusion has too much new content.
There are plenty of very valid criticisms of my horribly writing here that have been repeated a few times each, but the one about my ‘conclusion’ adding too much new content is spot-on and original.
Does the added notes at the beginning as a replacement for the whole long thing help? Like with the shorter more immediate list of references (and the clarification of why I wanted to put that information about Michel Thomas in there, despite having to shoehorn it in)?