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Subject:Re: Best Documentation From:Win Day <winday -at- home -dot- com> To:Brent L Jones <brent -dot- jones -at- jadesolutions -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:02:46 -0500
At 12:48 PM 1/27/00 -0700, Brent L Jones wrote:
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>If I had to give a presentation on the power and usefulness of good
>technical docs, I'd leave the peanut butter at home, the shoelaces in my
>shoes, and instead bring a bunch of small Lego kits.
I took a technical writing course several years ago; one of the instructors
used Lego kits as samples of wordless documentation.
I also like the instructions for IKEA furniture, for the same reasons.
