RE: There must be some kind of standard....

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Hi Paul!

<tangent>

Sorry, I know you were asking about capitalization, but I can't help
myself. Omit needless words.

Minimal reduction: "This procedure establishes the responsibilities and
requirements for controlling documents."

Even better: "This is the procedure for controlling documents."

In FDA-talk, "establish" has a specific meaning, but according to that
meaning, a procedure by itself doesn't establish.

And "responsibilities and requirements" is unnecessary, unless there's a
separate procedure for other elements of document control.

</tangent>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jopakent
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:06 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: There must be some kind of standard....
> 
> ... Is there some kind of different standard that applies to 
> procedure writing that allows for sentences like the following:
> 
> "The purpose of this procedure is to establish the 
> responsibilities and requirements 
> for controlling Documents..."
> 


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