RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

We weren't talking about young children. We were talking about
practical engineers. 

--- "Martinek, Carla" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> > "The pure research chemist will say , 'Chlorophyll makes food
> > by photosynthesis.'  The practical engineer does not know what
> > he the scientist--is talking about.  But if the statement is 


> -----Original Message-----
> John Posada then wrote:
> 
> > To migrate the subject, the difference between writing the first 
> > sentence and the second sentence is the difference between how a 
> > technical technical writer will write and how a non-technical 
> > technical writer will write. The version starting with Green
> > leaves, is, in the context of the sentence, so technically
> > shallow as to be useless.
> 
> 
> What it all comes down to is to know your audience and the 
> purpose of the document.  The "green leaves" example my be
> sufficient in a few specific situations, such as a high-level
> explanation for young children.


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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