I am running away from reality, as fast as i could.
and trying not to look back, so as to prevent my eye from tearing.
Documentation feedback
Monday, September 21, 2009
I remember the times when each of my sentence used to span across more than three lines. While writing requirements, the first feedback I received was that - "Cut your sentences short." Initially I did not understand why they were saying that. They - here refers to business users. They had no issues with grammar or sentence strucutre but it was just that people lost the idea of what they were reading about when the sentences became really long. One of the business user, Jennifer, she told me that she had studied a subject in college which was only about writing professional documents. Starting then, all the documentation and my emails followed the expected etiquitte and now it has become sort of habit. The other feedback I had received from my current customers two years back was that I make my emails too complex to comprehend. My customers are mostly non English native so they want their emails as simple as possible and as straight forward as possible. It took me a while to correct myself everytime I wrote an email, which is several times a day. All these changes and regulations on writing itself from my profoession has started to influence my writing in general. I rarely write long sentences and never is my writing complex. At least thats what I assume so. In a way I see a clarity in my writing; just the sentences and nothing more.