Re: "using" as a verb in a task heading

["Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

I don't like the examples because it reminds me of situations (e.g.,
tables, bulleted lists) where "writers" act as if/assume that the cell
topic, or sentence stem, provides complete information. In some
instances, if the content is very basic, that's possibly true. In
others, the content is dense, so one has to keep referring back to the
stem to parse what's going on. It also hurts to see pieces of
thoughts/ideas just hanging there with no connection. (rant over)

I'd do as others have suggested: make sure the initial explanation is
thorough, then use the header Method A, Method B. Or return to the
main header and repeat that in the sub-head.

Arrrgggggh! It's chigger weather and I caught them, sob. What am I
going to do about my garden.........

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Milan Davidovic <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Let's say you have a task -- for demonstration purposes only, we'll
> call it Verbing the Noun. There are two ways of verbing the noun, so
> one could construct headings as follows:
>
> Verbing the Noun
>   Using Method A
>   Using Method B
>
> As I was taught in my initial training, "using" is a poor choice for a
> verb in a task heading (sound familiar? or is this just me?). In this
> case, though, it may be okay. What do you think?
>
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