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RE: "Too Good" (was: Hi-Tech Company Hasn't Used Tech Writers in Years - Help!)
Subject:RE: "Too Good" (was: Hi-Tech Company Hasn't Used Tech Writers in Years - Help!) From:"Anameier, Christine A - Eagan, MN" <christine -dot- a -dot- anameier -at- usps -dot- gov> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:47:09 -0600
Goober wrote:
> Works for me! I have a photographic memory,
> but a horrible memory for audio-received information.
Wouldn't that be an argument for preferring to have something complete
in front of you instead of fragmented phrases reinforced by a spoken
presentation?
> I also tend to gloss over written text, looking for key
> terms and phrases to lock into memory. When they
> aren't in the book, I put them there, and then re-read
> what I've edited. This is why I've been unable to resell
> my old textbooks. ;)
Seems like if the book is written right, the key terms and phrases would
be in there and you could just get out the yellow highlighter... And
which would be more useful to you now, those textbooks with your notes
in the margins, or fragmentary "designed to be filled in" handouts with
your notes on them?
> Everyone learns differently.
Good point. A coworker of mine dropped by my cube, noticed Goober's
reply on my screen, and said that he too needed to write stuff down in
order to retain it in his memory.
Maybe the ideal training handout would be a detailed, complete, heavily
illustrated explanation, with key terms in boldface AND big white spaces
for the trainee to add notes? :)
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