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Subject:Re: Procedural Steps From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:29:04 +0800
I-Read-Somewhere Dept:
I read somewhere that readers are often turned off by very long lists
of steps, especially if the task seems as though it shouldn't be that
complicated.
Beginners may appreciate baby-steps-and-lots-of-them, though.
Obviously there's a balance, and where to place your fulcrum depends
on your readers.
