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  • Jan 9, 2007, 08:54 AM
    dcutaia
    Technical Writing
    Hello,

    Can I get some suggestion on how to improve the below paragraph.

    Thanks,

    DAC

    We recommend creation of a spreadsheet of problems with their
    Resolutions to help communicate the history of problems that the
    Help Desk personnel have resolved. This will also assist other
    Personnel working on the Help Desk to resolve like problems.
  • Jan 9, 2007, 09:02 AM
    RickJ
    Is this for employees? If so,
    1. Wouldn't you rather this documentation be a requirement rather than a suggestion?
    2. What specific software will the employees have access to?
  • Mar 11, 2007, 10:43 PM
    nmwirez
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by dcutaia
    Hello,

    Can I get some suggestion on how to improve the below paragraph.

    Thanks,

    DAC

    We recommend creation of a spreadsheet of problems with their
    resolutions to help communicate the history of problems that the
    Help Desk personnel have resolved. This will also assist other
    personnel working on the Help Desk to resolve like problems.

    dcutaia,
    Here is my take,
    Creation of a spreadsheet pinpointing problems with related resolutions is recommended in order to communicate the history of past solutions from the Help Desk personnel. This assists others, also working on the Help desk, to resolve similar problems. nmwirez
  • Mar 15, 2007, 08:17 AM
    dflak
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by dcutaia
    Hello,

    Can I get some suggestion on how to improve the below paragraph.

    Thanks,

    DAC

    We recommend creation of a spreadsheet of problems with their
    resolutions to help communicate the history of problems that the
    Help Desk personnel have resolved. This will also assist other
    personnel working on the Help Desk to resolve like problems.

    Never underestimate the power of the simple declarative sentence. Ok, so the second sentence below is actually a compound sentence, but since both simple sentences would have shared the same subject, "this spreadsheet," I decided to combine them.

    Record problems and their resolutions in a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet provides a history of problems that the help desk has resolved, and assists help desk personnel to resolve similar problems.
  • Mar 15, 2007, 12:11 PM
    nmwirez
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by dflak
    Never underestimate the power of the simple declarative sentence. Ok, so the second sentence below is actually a compound sentence...

    Hi dflak, I hope you do not mind some plagiaristic refinement. I think your compound sentence structure is nice. Here is what I did with it.

    File problem resolutions in a spreadsheet to provide a history that the help desk has resolved and assists other personnel with similar problems.

    Whaddya think?

    Nm
  • Mar 15, 2007, 12:59 PM
    dflak
    The shorter, the better. :-)

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