Dear Jim, Congratulations on this letter. It achieves a nice balance between compliments and criticism.
I have used a similar technique for some years. I call it the sandwich technique, and it is where you carefully place your criticism (the filling) between slices of compliments. I have found this also very useful when I am judging students work in events such as the 'Tournament of Minds' that we have each year here in Geelong. Cheers, Pat Naughtin 48 Roberts Road Belmont, Geelong 3216 Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- on 2002/03/04 03.16, James Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Recently posted to an author in Science magazine. > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: "Is Safe Mail Worth the Price" article > Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:15:09 -0500 > From: James Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dear Dr. Florig, > > I read your interesting and timely article, "Is Safe Mail Worth the Price", > in the February 22 issue of Science and I enjoyed its broad view. I also > enjoyed seeing the newer SI unit, the gray, being used instead of its > predecessor. > > With all due respect, I would like to bring a point to your attention. The > article used "kiloGray" in the text and in the caption to the figure. This > should have been "kilogray" since SI unit names do not start with uppercase > letters. Matching the appropriate use of symbols in the other quantities, the > caption should have used "56 kGy" instead of "56 kiloGray". > > Neither of these, of course, detracted from your broad view in this timely > article. I especially liked your caution to temper the rush to embrace > scientific and technological capabilities with thoughts about public policy > and society's will. Thank you! > > James R. Frysinger, CAMS > > -- > James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston > 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy > Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street > 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 > http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644 > > ------------------------------------------------------- >
