RE: introducing steps

Subject: RE: introducing steps
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
To: Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:27:12 -0400

Laura Lemay wrote.

> My
> personal preference these days in the absence of a style guide is to
> remove as much introductory text as possible, because people just don't
> read it.

So if there are a several prerequisites, you make them
steps 1 through 4, before step 5 gets to the meat of the
current procedure?

Assuming a Help page/topic, and not a linear manual, how
do you know the person arriving at your un-introduced
instructions has been through any previous procedures,
or has brought necessary objects or information to
the current set of steps?

- kevin
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Follow-Ups:

References:
introducing steps: From: Becca
Re: introducing steps: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: introducing steps: From: Laura Lemay

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