RE: Writing test

[Chuck Martin <CMartin -at- SERENA -dot- com>]

Maybe you could contact Cooper Interaction Design (www.cooper.com) and see
if you could use their horrid sample.

--
"I don't entirely understand it but it is true: Highly skilled carpenters
don't get insulted when told they are not architects, but highly skilled
programmers do get insulted when they are told they are not UI designers."
     - anonymous programmer quoted in "GUI Bloopers"
       by Jeff Johnson

Chuck Martin, Sr. Technical Writer
cmartin -at- serena -dot- com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Strausfeld [mailto:david -dot- strausfeld -at- emotion -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:48 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Writing test

> 
> We're recruiting some new technical writers and I wanted to 
> give a short 
> writing test to each applicant.  I was hoping to find a 
> really bad piece of 
> technical writing on the web and ask them to edit it.   A 
> multiple choice 
> test of some kind might be okay too.  Believe or not, I can't 
> find what I'm 
> looking for despite spending like an hour on the web.  
> Anybody have any 
> suggestions?
> 
> 


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