Re: another word for steps

Subject: Re: another word for steps
From: Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:49:13 -0700 (PDT)


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Richard G. Combs wrote:
But, whatever level of granularity is appropriate, the _smallest discrete entity_ should be a step. _Occasionally_, one of these might have "substeps." But if every "step" consists of a sequence of discrete actions, then _those_ are the true steps, and what you call a "step" is actually a "task."
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I agree. That's why I didn't want to use step. But I still wanted to impart the idea of needing to accomplish each task in a specified order. Anyway, I think I will go with John Posada's suggestion and use an outline format. That seems to solve the problem pretty cleanly while not complicating things.

Thanks for all your suggestions. :-)




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