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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
They shouldn't be creating instructions and it's bad practice to let them. When I worked with the Air Force every report the engineers wrote was sent through tech editing to be turned into English. That was not so at GM.
Everything I wrote for my magazines was sent through a copy editor. I know how to write English, but it's easy to assume too much of your readers ability to follow along. A copy editor makes sure everything is readable at the level of your audience.
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This sentence somehow reminds me of the parable, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Though, I don't know how to rephrase that to encompass wdfithteen's thought.
Dumb it down is all I can think of.
I will always remember a sentence from some of the first china instructions I read. It started with. "Please be to sure that oil level is at marked."