Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

Subject: Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:31:13 -0800



Note also that in 1942, I don't think anyone really understood the energetics of photosynthesis. All of the stuff we know today (about a photon of light energizing an electron in chlorophyll so that it jumps to the next electron shell and begins a reaction through a series of chemical transformations to eventually be stored as starch) would have resulted in witch burning way-y-y-y back then.

I think that with the proper perspective, we can still understand that (if not how) an engineer of 1942 would have been astonished to know that nature had such a practical demonstration of something that the science of that day found to be a paradox of duality (light coes in discrete packets of energy and behaves like a wave AND a particle). Today, my 7-year old can leap this problem without breaking stride. I told her about it, and she declared with utmost certainty, "Sure, no problem, light is a particle surfing on a wave."
As tech writers, we're all that good, aren't we?


--Ned




John Posada wrote:

We weren't talking about young children. We were talking about
practical engineers.
--- "Martinek, Carla" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:

-----Original Message-----
"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


-----Original Message-----
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.


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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