RE: The 'user' in User Manual
From: "Flood, Donna" <DFlood -at- eoriginal -dot- com>
To: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>,"Steve Read" <steve -at- readonly -dot- com>
CC: Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: RE: The 'user' in User Manual
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:32:37 -0500
I use "login" as a noun, and "log in" as a verb.
"Log in, and the system will display...."
OR
"The login and the system will display...."
Donna Flood
Technical Writer
eOriginal, Inc.
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Sent: Mon 2/12/2007 5:11 PM
To: 'Steve Read'
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Subject: RE: The 'user' in User Manual
If the sentence stands alone and the passage makes no reference to this
being directed to a new user setup, then there is ambiguity, but the
ambiguity is in the passage and not the sentence. I haven't read the
passage that this sentence should support, but my guess is that it could
read as follows.
In an administration document:
"Setup the new user. Have the new user login. The system displays the new
user welcome message at the first successful login."
In a user document:
"Login and the system will display the new user welcome message after the
first successful login."
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