RE: Procedures for supposedly obvious things

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Gee, and *I* thought it was another example of a clueless writer who
fails to ask the obvious follow-up questions when the first draft
doesn't work. I wouldn't hire her.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Hood
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 6:16 PM
> Subject: RE: Procedures for supposedly obvious things
> 
> I would not be surprised to find it's the literal
> truth. Another example of how hard it can be to
> please the frabjapping customer. :-)
> 
> --- James Barrow wrote:
> 
> > Approximately three years ago, I was surfing the
> > Internet and came across a short article 
> > (column? blog?) that had me rolling with laughter.
> > 
> > It described a college student (tech writer?) who
> > was given the assignment of describing a mouse 
> > (the rodent kind). She began by stating the 
> > obvious and keeping it simple: "A mouse has four 
> > legs, a long tail, and is covered with fur".
> > 
> > She turns in the assignment and the professor/editor
> > returns the paper with the following comment: 
> > "Provide more detail".
> > 
> > To make a long story short, the student takes her
> > once brief paper and turns it into a thesis on 
> > mice, describing every possibly detail about a 
> > mouse.
> > 
> > The professor's final comment was something along
> > the lines of: "Too wordy".
> > 
> 

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