Re: Let us test

[Kent Newton <KentN -at- METRIX-INC -dot- COM>]

Some questions that popped to mind...

1.  What kind of store?  Grocery? Hardware? Clothing?  In step 2 you
imply a grocery store by mentioning the produce department, but why do I
need to wait until then to learn the information?

2.  The illustration was of Iceburg lettuce but the store sold only
Boston Bib lettuce (which looks totally different)?  What do I do now?

How about this:

1.  Go to the grocery store of your choice.

2.  Go to the produce department.

3.  Ask the manager of the produce department for a head of lettuce.

4.  Purchase the lettuce.

Kent
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Kent Newton
Senior Technical Writer
kentn -at- metrix-inc -dot- com


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>From:  Eric J. Ray[SMTP:ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Friday, September 06, 1996 1:16 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
>Subject:       Re: Let us test

>The response from the other end of the office was:

>1.      Go to the store.
>2.      Go to produce department.
>3.      Buy lettuce, as depicted in Figure 1.

>Note: If the item you selected more closely
>        resembles Figure 2 than Figure 1,
>        you probably selected cabbage instead
>        of lettuce.

><Production: Print figures in color>

>Eric


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>--- On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:05:17 -0700  Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM>
>wrote:

>>I know that a lot of folks dislike the very notion of a tech writer's test
>>(e.g., a pencil-owner's manual), but I've come up with what I think is a
>>particularly nasty one:
>>
>>  Write the instructions for sending someone to the grocery store to
>>  buy a head of iceberg lettuce, with particular emphasis on assuring
>>  that they do not come back instead with a head of cabbage (or anything
>>  else). Assume the store they go to does not have these vegetables
>>  labeled in any way. (Asking a store clerk for help is not an option.)
>>
>>I'd make an evil interviewer }:)
>>
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>>  "I hate quotations!"            Wolf Lahti
>>     -- Ralph Waldo Emerson       Bow, Washington
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