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RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
Subject:RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar From:"Martinek, Carla" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com> To:"List,Techwriter" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:30:45 -0600
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> "The pure research chemist will say , 'Chlorophyll makes food by
> photosynthesis.' The practical engineer does not know what he --the
> scientist--is talking about. But if the statement is rephrased,
> 'Green leaves build up food with the help of light', anyone can
> understand it.
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John Posada then wrote:
> To migrate the subject, the difference between writing the first
> sentence and the second sentence is the difference between how a
> technical technical writer will write and how a non-technical
> technical writer will write. The version starting with Green leaves,
> is, in the context of the sentence, so technically shallow as to be
useless.
What it all comes down to is to know your audience and the purpose of
the document. The "green leaves" example my be sufficient in a few
specific situations, such as a high-level explanation for young
children.
Carla
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