{"id":3710,"date":"2022-08-18T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:32:15","slug":"three-pages-a-thousand-words-plus-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/08\/three-pages-a-thousand-words-plus-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Pages, a Thousand Words Plus Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Any topic and just about any situation. Please provide three pages that contain a thousand words and several figures. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Old fashioned? Perhaps. Effective? Yes. This still works pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog post fails its recommendation. Again, this is just a quick note asking for something. Tell me about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cloud computing<\/li><li>Crypto currency<\/li><li>Salary cap and free agency in professional sports<\/li><li>The situation in the Black Sea and how it affects diet and life in the regions south of there<\/li><li>Evidence that supports and discredits the theory of man-made climate change<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,63,43,310,412,5],"tags":[154,183,165,311,413,128],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-expectations","category-ideas","category-information","category-language","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-expectations","tag-ideas","tag-information","tag-language","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}