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Re: Using a gerund phrase for procedure topic titles? (Take II)
Subject:Re: Using a gerund phrase for procedure topic titles? (Take II) From:Char James-Tanny <CharJT -at- helpstuff -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:24:30 -0500
> In any event, I think the rest of my response remains valid and relevant to
> techwr-l: I don't think it matters whether you use "creating" or "create" as
> the heading, though "creating" is more familiar. Perhaps a compromise might
> be "To create a new document"? That works well from the reader's viewpoint,
> and is a structure I've seen often enough to consider it familiar to many
> readers.
I've been watching this thread with interest, as I'm one of those in favor of the
gerund/noun phrase/gerundive. I'm not crazy about starting a number of topics
with "To...", especially for online documents, because it is so hard to scan a
list of topic titles that all start the same.
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