05-27-2009, 01:05 PM
I'm writing a textbook to teach court reporting and captioning students how to use our software. Unfortunately, I can't just regurgitate the material I write for professionals; can't make any assumptions as to previous computer hardware or operating system knowledge, and I have to assume that they have no previous experience or knowledge of most of the concepts that professional court reporters take for granted.
So I find myself writing a sentence, then examining it and considering what the reader would need to know to understand it, and then writing 10-20 paragraphs of background to explain what I mean. Very tedious! wish someone could come up with a way to allow people to access or download selected contents of my brain for a fee. It would be much more efficient, I'm sure.
Oh, and in addition to the explanations, for each chapter I also have to have exercises, quiz questions, extra credit activities and an instructor's guide explaining how to teach the stuff.
I've just finished Chapter 4 of what I expect will probably be 30 chapters. I'm supposed to have the rough draft done by July. No worries, after all, nothing to distract me between now and then, except for the new puppy, old sick dog, trips to Boston and New Jersey, etc...
Good thing I don't drink alone and there's no one here to drink with!
So I find myself writing a sentence, then examining it and considering what the reader would need to know to understand it, and then writing 10-20 paragraphs of background to explain what I mean. Very tedious! wish someone could come up with a way to allow people to access or download selected contents of my brain for a fee. It would be much more efficient, I'm sure.
Oh, and in addition to the explanations, for each chapter I also have to have exercises, quiz questions, extra credit activities and an instructor's guide explaining how to teach the stuff.
I've just finished Chapter 4 of what I expect will probably be 30 chapters. I'm supposed to have the rough draft done by July. No worries, after all, nothing to distract me between now and then, except for the new puppy, old sick dog, trips to Boston and New Jersey, etc...
Good thing I don't drink alone and there's no one here to drink with!
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