Hey, here's a pet beef I have posted about again and again especially with the BAs.
When you send a file to someone else do not name it for yourself. Name it for them.
On my computer, writing 'Project Paper' as the name of a file makes sense because I have all my other things there that are all mine! but if I am sending the file to someone else they might be getting 8 or 9 people 'Project papers' to look at. So I name the file for them 'Akinleye - first draft Project Paper'. that way they know what it is from their perspective.
I do not get irate about this because I want all the files in my computer to be neatly named. I get up-set because I feel this is a symptom of sending work for the other person to sort out for you. It goes along with
'Its still quite long can you let me know which parts I should cut?' - i.e. can you edit if for me.
'Its my first draft I know I have somethings to work on?' - i.e. so I'll let you point out the big ones for me because I am just a bit overwhelmed by the whole thought of messing with it again
'Can you just tell me if this is right?' i.e. I have given up ownership of my work and I am handing the creative process and point I am trying to make over to you.
When I get an email with work on it I like to put it in a folder called 'to mark' if I put two papers called 'Project paper' in the folder my computer will think they are the same thing and replace one with the other. Do you want that to happen!!!! So when people send me files called the generic name that works for their computer but not thinking about the person receiving the document, I have to open it and re-name just to save it. I have to check whose it is - fingers crossed it has a name in the main text and paper numbers too!!!
When you send a file to someone else do not name it for yourself. Name it for them.
On my computer, writing 'Project Paper' as the name of a file makes sense because I have all my other things there that are all mine! but if I am sending the file to someone else they might be getting 8 or 9 people 'Project papers' to look at. So I name the file for them 'Akinleye - first draft Project Paper'. that way they know what it is from their perspective.
I do not get irate about this because I want all the files in my computer to be neatly named. I get up-set because I feel this is a symptom of sending work for the other person to sort out for you. It goes along with
'Its still quite long can you let me know which parts I should cut?' - i.e. can you edit if for me.
'Its my first draft I know I have somethings to work on?' - i.e. so I'll let you point out the big ones for me because I am just a bit overwhelmed by the whole thought of messing with it again
'Can you just tell me if this is right?' i.e. I have given up ownership of my work and I am handing the creative process and point I am trying to make over to you.
When I get an email with work on it I like to put it in a folder called 'to mark' if I put two papers called 'Project paper' in the folder my computer will think they are the same thing and replace one with the other. Do you want that to happen!!!! So when people send me files called the generic name that works for their computer but not thinking about the person receiving the document, I have to open it and re-name just to save it. I have to check whose it is - fingers crossed it has a name in the main text and paper numbers too!!!
