Re: Note versus Tip

Subject: Re: Note versus Tip
From: Bridget Gordan <bridget -dot- gordan -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Sean Brierley <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerberscientific -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:20:48 -0500

Where I work now does this. I find it distracting. At my last job, where I
ruled the doc world, I incorporated notes into the text and just had tips
identified with a label.

Bridget

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Sean Brierley <
sean -dot- brierley -at- gerberscientific -dot- com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A search yields nothing. Anyone know of a study that identifies if having a
> both a note and a tip in technical communication is useful. that is, if a
> tip is an optional thing that helps you finish a task more efficiently, and
> a note contains information that affects successful completion of a task,
> is there a study that tells us whether our audience cares about the
> difference?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Sean
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