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Subject:Re: Reading *all* the instructions From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>, David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:31:39 -0700 (PDT)
Alot of TW's feel that alot of words is cool. Have you ever noticed that alot of the posts on this listserv go on-and-on-and-on before they get to the essence of what they want to say?
Most often, reading as little of the instructions as possible is the healthy thing to do.
Richard Lewis
Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net> wrote:
David Castro wrote:
> Techwr-lers:
>
the
> first instruction would be to read all the way through the
> instructions.
>
> Would you do the same? Have you ever done this in any of your
> documentation? I'm sure I've seen it done elsewhere, but I can't
> remember where. Maybe a ...for Dummies book?
>
Well, at least one of my engineering instructors conducted a lesson- I
believe it was a final exam- the first instruction was ' be sure to read
all the way through'...
The instructions got progressively sillier and more bizarre, and at the
end was the instruction to just hand it in and have a nice summer!
You could really tell which of us didn't heed the first instruction!
cheers
Jay
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