RE: Sample Writing Tests Needed

[Suzette Leeming <techwriter -at- techemail -dot- com>]

BMcClain -at- centura -dot- com said...

I'd love to see one too, but in lieu of one, how about this:  Explain in 250 
words or fewer, to somebody reading at about a fifth-grade level, how to 
balance a checkbook. 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: colleen -dot- denardo -at- la-z-boy -dot- com [mailto:colleen -dot- denardo -at- la-z-boy -dot- com] 
 
>I was hoping that someone out there might have a good example of a writing 
>test. It's tough to find experienced writers so I thought administering 

That makes the assumption that the person writing the test obviously knows how to balance a checkbook/cheque book.

Don't slam me for this... but I would fail that test.  

Any test that is designed should take into consideration what potential writer already knows.

Just wanted to mention that caveat.

Suzette Leeming
Technical Writer
Markham, Ontario, Canada


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