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

Subject: RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "List,Techwriter" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:24:21 -0800 (PST)

> "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 rephrased, 'Green leaves build up food with the
> help of light', anyone can understand it.

The problem is, the before version and the after version do not mean
the same thing. Yes, the second statement is correct, but it is only
1% of what the first statement is; Chlorophyll carris with it a
book-load of knowledge and photosynthesis is another volume.

That's like saying "Computers connect to the Internet by plugging a
cable into the wall." and it doesn't take a "pure research chemist"
to understand this, just high school biology.

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.

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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