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Subject:Re: No Bucks, No Buck Rogers From:Ymorrigu -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:48:02 EST
>Now - that's a little lofty for tech writing but the concept remains the
same.
>True leaders and true writers have the capability to mold chaos into beauty.
>They can turn a drab, dull product/technology/science into something
>nteresting and educational.
Hunh. Pardon me, but doesn't the whole "chaos into beauty" thing smack of
rhetoric? I thought we were trying to pull down the ivory towers here. Why
don't we get back to producing well-written user-based documentation and
leave beauty and chaos to those who don't have deadlines.