How About Progress Reports? & Harry FP, Again

[abigailnus]

Phyllis wrote:
> > I am still interested (especially in the Heir of Gryffindor 
> section), 
> > but need to go back to a point Amanda raised awhile back which is: 
> > for FAQ newbies (such as myself), can one of the oldbies please 
> walk 
> > us through how to write a FAQ? 

And Jo concurred.  I'm hardly qualified to offer an opinion, but how about 
this:

1. Create an outline for the FP, with specific topics to be covered.
2. For each topic, go through the list of cataloguing topic terms and find a 
few (maybe half a dozen) that best describe discussions about the topic.
3. Search for messages with those topic terms in the Whole Enchilada (I'm 
not entirely certain how to do this)
4. Identify the best messages from the relevant ones
5. Use those messages to compose the section of the FP.  Here the question 
of the FP's format becomes important.  Some essays merely pose questions 
and immediately link to message numbers, whereas other offer a short 
discussion of the topic.

Abigail
Talking about things she knows not