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Bob Walkden wrote:
>The trails can include a traditional table of contents, of course.
>Other types of trail could include:
>
> Prerequisites - for learning in a particular order
> Classifications - to group similar concepts
> Chronology - to show events happening in time order
> Structures - to show the parts of a structure
> Definition - to link related or similar definitions or terms
> Examples - to link the separate parts of a running example
I like this. I do agree with you.
What I am worried about is continuity where a single author remembers
what he said in chapter 2 and can refer to it in chapter 7 (say). With
multiple authors (and no Editor) this continuity is lost. The words
"fragmented", "jumbled", "disorganized", come to mind.
I find reading Microsoft documentation dry as sand and hope we can avoid
that style. We need "why" something is done in addition to "how" it is
done.
Now, how do we move forward?
-Doug
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