The three great virtues of a technical writer

["Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com>]

What are the three greatest single-word virtues  
that typify an outstanding technical writer? 

I ask because I'm working up an idealistic manifesto 
on the topic, and I value the opinions of the people 
on this list. 

As an example, three attributes for help desk people 
could be Patience, Service, and Accuracy. Those of 
you who have programmed in Perl probably already know 
that the three great virtues of a programmer are 
Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris: 

<http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html>

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 e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III

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