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- From: friday@netcom.com (Carol Anne Ogdin)
- Subject: AHL #2/Exercises
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.040257.28390@netcom.com>
- Summary: Exercises as companion to AHL #2: Ambiguity
- Keywords: Hypnosis Language Ambiguity Exercises
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:02:57 GMT
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- Exercises as Companion to AHL #2: PATTERNS IN AMBIGUITY
-
- Exercise: There are lots of these kinds of ambiguities; as an exercise, write
- down one of each kind next to the specification:
-
- Hypnotist Intentional Generalization ______________________________
- Hypnotist Intentional Deletion ______________________________
- Hypnotist Intentional Distortion ______________________________
- Hypnotist Unintentional Generalization ______________________________
- Hypnotist Unintentional Deletion ______________________________
- Hypnotist Unintentional Distortion ______________________________
- Subject Intentional Generalization ______________________________
- Subject Intentional Deletion ______________________________
- Subject Intentional Distortion ______________________________
- Subject Unintentional Generalization ______________________________
- Subject Unintentional Deletion ______________________________
- Subject Unintentional Distortion ______________________________
-
- Exercise: Take the opening page of a novel, magazine article or a lengthy
- memorandum, and identify the various ambiguities in the first few paragraphs.
- For example, the following excerpt is taken from the uncopyrighted work,
- "Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software," (MITRE Corp. ESD-TR-86-
- 278, Aug '86, S. L. Smith & J. N. Mosier) without, and then with, annotation:
-
- Original:
- "This report offers guidelines for design of user interface software
- in six functional areas: data entry, data display, sequence control,
- user guidance, data transmission, and data protection. This report
- revises and extends previous compilations of design guidelines (cf.
- Smith and Mosier, 1984a)."
-
- Annotated:
- "This report offers [to whom?]
- guidelines [what, specifically, is meant by 'guidelines?']
- for design of user interface software [much deleted
- information: is this the same as software with a user
- interface, or only for software with the exclusive purpose
- of user interface? Which users? What, specifically, is
- meant by 'interface?']
- in six [why six? why not five, or seven or some other number?]
- functional areas: data entry, data display, sequence control, user
- guidance, data transmission, and data protection [what do each of
- these mean? Would all observers concur on definitions of
- each of these six areas?].
- This report revises and extends [in what way?]
- previous compilations of design guidelines (cf. Smith and Mosier,
- 1984a) ['cf.'; are there others? If compiled by the named
- authors, where did those design guidelines come from?]."
-
- Clearly, even this small example could be picked apart in even further detail.
- Depending on context, some of these questions might be irrelevant. Any
- written work can be analyzed in this way; to the extent the writer has
- answered the relevant questions later in the document, it is complete (in this
- particular example, the entire document is *quite* complete).
-
- This material is Copyright, 1992, 1993 by Carol Anne Ogdin, Santa Clara, CA
- 95051; all rights reserved. Distributed through alt.hypnosis newsgroup of
- Usenet (Internet), and paper copies may be made for personal use. Any
- distribution of this material must include this copyright and contact notice.
- The author may be reached as friday@well.sf.ca.us
- --
- --Friday "Knowledge is guesswork
- Carol Anne Ogdin, Principal Designer disciplined by
- Deep Woods Technology rational criticism."
- friday@well.sf.ca.us --Karl Popper
-