[Mid] A+S Documentation

        Documentation is one of my less favorite things when it
comes to A+S but one thing that really helps is to do the research for
things before you make them. I know that not many people do this
but it can be such a pain to try to document something after it is done
because then you are sitting there trying to justify why you deviated
from period technique where if you had simply looked at a few things
before you had started you might have found that it was actually just as
easy to do it in the more period way. Also in reguards to different judges
interpreting primary, secondary etc. differently. I commented on this
to Mistress Siban at Regionals and her feeling was that if more judges
reviewed the rules in the A+S handbook on what primary secondary etc
was there would be less of a problem. The way I understand it is
that photographs published in a book such as from a museum etc are
a primary source, but what is written about those photographs in that
same book or introductions in that book are a secondary source.
Most people consider the translation of Theophilus available from
Dover to be a Primary source, but the technical translators comments
in the foot notes of that translation are secondary. While I will agree that
in many cases documentation does not have to be extremely long
I tend to try to document a piece as if the judge who will be looking at
it does not know anything about the techniques ahead of time. In some cases
this has happened where a person is asked to judge in a category that
they don't feel comfortable with so they can only judge to the criteria
and the documentation. If I were to advise someone entering A+S for the
first time I would suggest erring towards more rather than less because
I think alot of people get frustrated if they don't get good scores
With time and experience then those people will learn how to write
water tight documentation. I appoligise for rambling on

I saw lots of neat stuff this weekend at Kingdom A+S and Helping in the
Tally Room had some great Fringe Benefits-I got to taste some of the
Cordials. There was a really yummy peach or appricot one-not sure which
and not sure whose it was but it was very nice :-)

Lady Isabeau Pferdebandiger

From: karen@addl.purdue.edu (Karen Stegmeier)
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Received on Wed May 28 12:00:15 1997