RE: introducing steps

[<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com>]

It's my belief that the technical document output of the automotive
industry, if not the greatest in the world, is at least one of the top
ten groups. And having, seemingly, had to deal with all of it I think I
can say with some authority that the standard for writing step
procedures is...every possible way that it can be done, well or badly.

I would have to agree with the general trend of style advice from this
bunch of experts. Your teacher's style is not one I've seen very often.

-Brian H.

-----Original Message----- From: Gene Kim-Eng

Generally speaking, anytime anyone says "never" do something in a
document I wouldn't give the adminishment much credibility.  Almost
every seemingly bad idea is the right thing to do somewhere.

In this particilar case, my response is that "follow these steps" is
ALMOST always unnecessary and your teach is wrong MOST of the time.

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