Apr 08 2005

Some Sentences Are Art

Category: GeneralJeremy Wright @ 7:50 pm

I’m preparing some courseware for Microsoft. Here is a sentence from one of the “instructions on how to prepare this document” types of notes. It’s art:

The goal of this description is to provide a clear description of the instructional purpose of the activity and how the activity will be facilitated by the instructor or completed by the student.

Wow.

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  2. Nathan says:

    Haha. That was great.

  3. Shawn Lea says:

    Sounds like Microsoft technical writers get paid by the word! And I sincerely hope the courseware itself is much more user-friendly.

  4. Matt Thornton says:

    Makes sense to me. You want to try reading some of the docs on the stuff I use, they’ll fry your brain right out…