RE: Individual vs. Departmental Writer's Voice

[bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]

The need for consistency is one of the reasons that I sometimes think that
all beginning writers should have to "do time" on a military writing
project.

Imagine thousands of pages (or screens for an IETM) of maintenance and
troubleshooting procedures in three or four separate manuals where every
time you talked about any object you had to use the exact same terminology
and all repeated steps had to be worded exactly the same every time.  Do you
know how many times a truck manual tells the reader to raise the cab or
start the engine?  The insert file command quickly became my best friend.


-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 2:07 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Individual vs. Departmental Writer's Voice


Who does this writer think they are...Hemmingway? If the writer wants
to do creative writing, let him write the great american novel on his
own time.  if the editor is tasked with making sure the documnts are
writen in the same tone (which I agree they should be), then it is
upto the editor to enforce the convention and the writer should be an
adult about it.


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