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Re: non-parallelism - looking for the ok to let it go...
Subject:Re: non-parallelism - looking for the ok to let it go... From:Chris Despopoulos <despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
Maybe this isn't a problem of translating engineer-speek into English, rather than a problem of translating slides into prose. When a presenter delivers the talk around these slides does he just read the bullet lists? Or does he elaborate on each level-2 point? Rather than trying to rework the specific lists, I would consider that the lists are inappropriate outside of a power point presentation... I'd start thinking about the elaboration each point needs.
This said in complete ignorance of the actual content...
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