The infinite uncertainty of Introduction Contents.
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Writing is at best a whimsical affair, even factual, or worse technical writing is prone to these whims. Well at least the technical manuals I wrote were anyway. They may or may not have answered the users question, but at least they would have been taken on a short, and sometimes related journey.
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With this in mind, the need to suddenly supply “copy” for an introduction page, is both unnatural, and unnatural. See just how unnatural it is! This leaves the user with two choices...
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<li>Leave it all alone (and look like a newbie).
<li>Write out an Introduction.
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Obviously option two is the way to go, this then sorts out the people who can naturally come up with something amusing and insightful off the cuff, and the rest of us. Therefor the need to rustle up some contents, at least to get started. Then to keep coming back, editing, refining, editing some more, until the perfect Introduction in complete. Not that it ever is, as we know from the Introduction Uncertainty Principle, (I-UP). With this in mind...
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