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Subject:Re: "using" as a verb in a task heading From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:08:11 +1000
Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
> Janice makes an excellent point about section names. Granted the list
> you are creating is not a TOC, I wonder if there needs to be word for
> word correspondence between the list and section headers. For example
> ...
>
> Would be confusing to have the list like this:
> Verbing the Noun
> * Method A
> * Method B
>
> And then, the issue of using "using" aside, section headers like this:
> Verbing the Noun Using Method A
> Verbing the Noun Using Method B
>
Not sure what distinction you are making between
a list and section headers. I thought that this
discussion was about section headers. What type
of list are you talking about?
-- Janice
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