On 29/05/2010 20:45, Jim Kanter wrote:
This is becoming an interesting survey about who actually reads
instructions and who just assumes the way things are...
By the time one is in one's mid-40s the brain is half-rotted . . . :)
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This is directly relevant to a current situation in my EFL school.
Last week I decided to run the kids through a practise PET test; and
they all
"f**ked-up big"; this was odd as their English is reasonably good.
So, after a suitable rant on my part, and suitably splashy tears on
their part,
we did another one (at the next class); and they all did very well indeed.
The difference being simply that I went through the instructions with them
before the second attempt (they had charged at the first one like a bull at
the matador's cape - didn't bother to read the instructions).
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Now; while I'm on this particular soap-box let me have "a go" at the
RunRev documentation:
the other day I asked a question about how to duplicate a card with all
its controls,
scripts and so forth . . .
now the reason why I asked this question is because I searched through
the documentation under DUPLICATE and COPY . . .
now, maybe I'm thick, or maybe it just didn't occur to me to look for CLONE;
by why would it? when everything else of this sort comes under DUPLICATE.
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So; there are 2 problems; coming form each end. so to speak:-
1. is the user has to read the instructions.
2. the instructions have to be written with the user in mind.
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