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Its been my experience that writing samples, accompanied by a written or
oral meta-discussion of the documents, are more effective than an editing
exercise or objective test.
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Curtis Ward
curtis_ward -at- dbs-systems -dot- com
Dave Strausfeld wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> We're recruiting some new technical writers and I wanted to give a short
> writing test to each applicant. I was hoping to find a really bad piece
> of
> technical writing on the web and ask them to edit it. A multiple choice
> test of some kind might be okay too. Believe or not, I can't find what
> I'm
> looking for despite spending like an hour on the web. Anybody have any
> suggestions?
>
>
