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Subject:RE: Are your documents interesting? From:<laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com> To:<john -dot- cook -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:05:51 -0700
I don't think my documents are very interesting. For one thing, many of my readers are not native speakers of English (and I don't want them to spend twenty minutes looking up "passionately" and then trying to understand how they should "passionately" press ENTER and why that's important!). For another thing, I think the typical use model for most of my material is to search for a term, parachute into a page or topic, grab some info and get out ... it's hard to build up any momentum with the prose in that case.
That said, I think it would be fun to try to make my stuff interesting despite these limitations. I'm going to take this as a challenge. ;->
regards,
Laura Johnson
Learning Products Engineer
Agilent Technologies
Loveland, Colorado
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