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Subject:Re: More on drafts -- From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:30:47 -0600
David wrote:
> The original post, though, was about how to deal with a manager who
> didn't understand why that particular writer used the "brainstorm"
> method rather than the "outline" method. To that manager, an early
> snapshot of the document seemed haphazard, unorganized, and generally
> unacceptable.
Understood. But my comment was aimed some recent participants in this
thread, who seem in their own way as pedantic as that manager. Different
strokes, I guess...
Keith Cronin
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This message was written without using an outline. However, it was
composed while staring at a picture of the Hackos book on Amazon and
simultaneously thinking snorky thoughts about Andrew Plato's car. So that
should explain the quality of its content. Or something.
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