Re: Techwriter's toolkits and "application holy wars"

["Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- net -dot- au>]

Bill Hall wrote:


> Where techwriting is concerned
> we are faced with several competing paradigms, e.g., paper vs structured
> documents, data management vs knowledge management, learning vs teaching,
> etc..


Hi Bill,

Much of what you're on about here is way out of my ken, 
though there are good authors and commentators on these 
subjects, whose works are available both in print and online. 
I'll spare myself the embarassment of pretending to be well-
acquainted with them.

But I'd be grateful if you could explain what you mean by 
"competing paradigms" with reference to the things cited above. 
Does teaching "compete with" learning? In what way? Can "paper" 
documents not be "structured"? Who decided this, and why didn't 
someone wake me up to tell me?

--
Michael West
Melbourne, Australia




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