lines of reasoning
"with [e-mail messages] I will always endeavour to present no more than two paragraphs in an [e-mail message]"
I don't get this. How can you list your data and build a multi-step line of reasoning in a mere 2 paragraphs? How can you respond to each of the errors and mis-representations in an article in fewer than twice as many significant paragraphs as there were in the article (i.e. erroneous assertion, refutation, assertion, refutation...)?
Of course, if the first paragraph is the basis for all the rest and you totally refute that, it's often unnecessary to address the fluff.
Then again, most B-school bozo execs can't cope with more than 3 extremely watered-down bullet points. If they had to actually look at data from multiple sources, plus the source citations, descriptions of the analysis, their tiny little brains would explode.
