Re: introducing steps

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Generally speaking, anytime anyone says "never" do something in a document I 
wouldn't give the adminishment much credibility.  Almost every seemingly bad 
idea is the right thing to do somewhere.

In this particilar case, my response is that "follow these steps" is ALMOST 
always unnecessary and your teach is wrong MOST of the time.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becca" <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 5:47 PM
Subject: introducing steps


I'm taking a class in technical writing. My teacher says never to introduce 
a series of steps with an infinitive (To install Sigil) but to use an 
independent clause ("To install Sigil, follow these steps:" or words to that 
effect. To me, the clause "follow these steps" is imlied by the fact that 
steps follow. Still, it's the teacher, so I have to follow her style.

Is there a more graceful way to introduce steps? how do yo do it? I'm pretty 
much coming up dry.

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