29th August 2008, 06:44 AM
Not really a context sheet but......In the days when evaluation reports used to get read before being sent out....we had a system where you submitted a draft to our 'editor' (in reality our boss) and he suggested text changes, spelling corrections, etc before it was sent out to the client. As befitting an archaeologist who suffered most of his academic career before the onset of computers, corrections were indicated by red pen throughout the draft.
One of my colleagues showed me an example of a correction that suggested our boss was having a bad day. The author had written that the centre of the floor of a barn he was surveying was 'somewhat depressed'. Our boss corrected him - "Can you find a better description to describe the irregular surface of this floor. 'Somewhat depressed' is how I feel reading this garbage!!"
One of my colleagues showed me an example of a correction that suggested our boss was having a bad day. The author had written that the centre of the floor of a barn he was surveying was 'somewhat depressed'. Our boss corrected him - "Can you find a better description to describe the irregular surface of this floor. 'Somewhat depressed' is how I feel reading this garbage!!"