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Subject:Boo boos From:Melissa Hunter-Kilmer <mhunterk -at- BNA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Aug 1995 15:30:50 EST
Elna Tymes writes :
>There is also another way to get source material. I call it "writing by
>provocation." This is sometimes what you have to resort to when your
>source information is incomplete or inaccurate, and you can't get what
>you need any other way.
Pat Madea writes:
>The hidden danger is missing a small hole or leaving some verbiage in
>a large document that I used merely as a textual placeholder.
When I have to "write by provocation," I enlarge the font size of the
"textual placeholder" (usually something like "Need procedure here") and
make it bold, italic, and underscored. It goes off the bottom of the page
sometimes, but it is *never* ignored. (What, never? No, never. What,
*never*?? Well, hardly ever!)
