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Subject:RE: Procedures for supposedly obvious things From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:16:17 -0800 (PST)
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 <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> 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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Keith Hood
Senior (only) tech writer
ACS, Inc.
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