Dot points work well when each dot is a short phrase or clause (like this) each one runs no longer than this (try to keep each point from run- ning over a line, like this) […] But different rules apply when each dot point is a sentence or a paragraph—when, in other words, it stands on its own grammatically.

[…] the young man or woman who serves us in the fast food outlet, the washer-upper, the supervisor and the manager.

Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon.

A Sheffield operator, using a fly press, tooths a handsaw with 115 teeth in less than two minutes […]