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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm putting together a presentation to help developers contribute to
> the documentation. Part of the presentation is general writing
> guidelines, like "use the active voice," "write in the present tense,"
> "avoid ambiguous pronouns," keep things short"--all the usual
> suggestions. For this section, we'd like to provide some examples of
> the "bad" way to do things. There is obviously no shortage of these
> things and I'm going to try to cull as many as possible from our own
> docs, but, thankfully, what we do have is not that bad.
>
> So, if you have any of these "bad" examples, please send them my way!
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
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