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Subject:RE: Procedures for supposedly obvious things From:"James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:31:18 -0800
>Keith Hood wrote:
>
>In a class I took many moons ago, we were given an assignment to write a
>procedure on how to use a chair.
Hmmm...this might be a good time to ask this again...
Approximately three years ago, I was surfing the Internet and came across a
short article (column? blog?) that had me rolling with laughter.
It described a college student (tech writer?) who was given the assignment
of describing a mouse (the rodent kind). She began by stating the obvious
and keeping it simple: "A mouse has four legs, a long tail, and is covered
with fur".
She turns in the assignment and the professor/editor returns the paper with
the following comment: "Provide more detail".
To make a long story short, the student takes her once brief paper and turns
it into a thesis on mice, describing every possibly detail about a mouse.
The professor's final comment was something along the lines of: "Too
wordy".
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I've been looking for this off and on
since I first saw it with no luck.
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