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Subject:Re: What would I call this? From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:Melissa Girardot <books -at- paulding-net -dot- com> Date:Wed, 31 May 2000 16:07:04 -0500
Honey, you call 'em training manuals, and if they are as detailed as you claim,
you betcha they're applicable to tech writing jobs! You understand processes and
cause and result:
Do this, press that, and this is what happens.
Wrote training manuals for mainframe applications....you bet that's applicable.
Go for it!
Jo Byrd
Melissa Girardot wrote:
> At the risk of being flamed or subject to the lampooning of Mr. Plato, I have
> a seriously newbie question.
>
> Some time ago, I found myself writing training manuals concerning the
> mainframe programs I used in my clerical jobs, right down to "press this key
> to get this result".
>
> I'd like to be able to include these manuals on my resume, but I honestly
> don't know what to call them, or whether they would even be applicable to any
> tech writing jobs I might apply for.
>
> Thanks for your tolerance!
> Melissa Girardot
