I've been working on a paper for my Technical Writing class for the past few days. It's kind of a fun project, but I'm getting a little tired of the tedium. I've got most of the content down, so now I'm going back to make sure that I meet all the requirements. And I'm stumped. Here's the requirements for the Front matter: (remember, this is a technical writing class)
So, for the four pages, this is what I think it wants me to do:
| Count | Number | List in TOC | |
| Title Page | i | No | No |
| Letter | ii | No | Yes |
| TOC | iii | Yes | No |
| Preface | iv | Yes | Yes |
Argg.... English majors... :)
6 comments:
The technical writing crowd are not of the same breed as most English folk. In fact, we like to all be grouped separately as a general rule as to eliminate character assumptions and stereotypes: technical writers, creative writers, editors, and literary studies.
As for your teacher: I would expect that a technical writer would have an excellent grasp at communicating instructions, however his/her unclear grammar and sentence structure allows for too many questionable incidents where multiple possibilities are left for interpretation.
After analyzing several poorly-used commas, I came up with the same answer as you though, so good luck.
Forgive me...crowd "IS." I changed my wording and then failed to proof read. ;D On that note, I belong to the literary studies crowd...not the editors.
Wow...your class sounds super lame, Matt. :)
I have made a discovery tonight, and it is that I don't read your blog often enough. So mostly I'm commenting on this post to tell you that I will be commenting on your previous posts, because I don't know if you get the emails like I do.
However, in reference to this post I would just like to say that few English majors have ever been required to work with such ridiculous/horrible guidelines. That's what you get for being one of those math/science/computery type people.
Thanks, Miri. Yes, I get emails for all comments made. Go crazy :)
And I knew it! The darn English teacher thinks that she has to act all engineerish to teach engineers -- but she missed the point. Glad you didn't have to suffer through such assignment requests (though I don't at all envy the volume of papers you guys write)
matt haggard! it has been forever. i would like to say, i very much enjoy your blog. and i'm glad you found mine, though i'm afraid it's not as interesting as yours by a long shot. how are things going?
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