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When building training materials, particularly using behavioral chaining (see B.F. Skinner) the discipline is to make no assumptions so the questions begin something like this: ********************************************************** The game is chess. You have checkmate. You have a) Won b) Lost. Pick one. ********************************************************* That is an actual example from a chess course. It is known as reverse chaining: begin from the end state and work backwards to the beginning states. When Roger is writing material, he often works this way and as is pragmatic, starts from the simplest concepts and we try to help him do this as much as is possible. What is obvious to us is not obvious to others. I work for a somewhat technically deficient logistics department. I have to explain even the most simple concepts to technical writers, their supervisors and the program managers. In my experience, there is no such thing as too simple an explanation of XML. And the failure of American universities to grasp the importance of adequate XML training for technical writers is sustained and abysmal. They turn out editors who can memorize Word style sheets but they fail when it comes to providing enough knowledge to bridge the gap between writers and elementary computer science concepts. Roger fills the gap. Ken fills the gap. And that is a good thing.
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