24th October 2011, 06:06 PM
P Prentice Wrote:l (calling punters dumb if they dont get it - wont cut it)
But weren't you also advocating that reports should be written so that they could be understood by an educated 12-year-old? Isn't that just as patronising? I don't see why writing a report that's accessible and readable should automatically mean that it has to be pitched to appeal to teenagers. Yes, reports should be written to appeal to an appropriate audience (so that something for a school education pack would be markedly different to the report for the developer), but it's a bit patronising to assume that a publication intended for a broad adult audience should be written to what you assume is the lowest common denominator. Sure, cut down on the over-use of technical terms, or at least explain what they mean, but why shouldn't we acknowledge that people are a bit more intelligent than you give them credit for.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum