Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Any topic and just about any situation. Please provide three pages that contain a thousand words and several figures.

Right or wrong, we reach a point in life and history that we need information on this or that. What format? Try the title of this post. On three pieces of standard-size paper (not a Tweet or whatever else we use this week), provide a thousand words and several figures. Standard font on standard paper is about 500 words per piece of paper. Hence, two pages of words and one page of figures will do.

Old fashioned? Perhaps. Effective? Yes. This still works pretty well.

This blog post fails its recommendation. Again, this is just a quick note asking for something. Tell me about:

• Cloud computing
• Crypto currency
• Salary cap and free agency in professional sports
• The situation in the Black Sea and how it affects diet and life in the regions south of there
• Evidence that supports and discredits the theory of man-made climate change

Cover with three pages, a thousand words, plus figures. Some topics make this more difficult than others. Regardless, thank you for your efforts to expand or condense the report.