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.
April 9th, 2005 at 3:22 am
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April 8, 2005
Pure artful sentences…. Almost brings a tear to my eye….
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April 9th, 2005 at 8:55 am
Haha. That was great.
April 9th, 2005 at 9:36 am
Sounds like Microsoft technical writers get paid by the word! And I sincerely hope the courseware itself is much more user-friendly.
April 11th, 2005 at 8:48 am
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…