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RE: Which style of giving instructions is more effective?
Subject:RE: Which style of giving instructions is more effective? From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>, Ryan Pollack <ryan -at- clicksecurity -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:57:13 -0800
Porrello, Leonard wrote:
> For what it's worth, I don't like starting procedural steps or
> references with prepositions (for example, "To" in "To restart ....").
> Prepositions don't give the reader useful information.
It's not a preposition. "To restart" is a verb (the infinitive).
Kat and Bill are correct.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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