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Subject:RE: STC Letter to the Editor From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:53:24 -0600
I just checked the list of winners from the (college-level, open to all of Region 5) student competition that the Austin chapter sponsors every year, and none of them were about software. They were:
An employee manual for Wal-Mart
The Web site for a horse ranch
A guide for Habitat for Humanity volunteers
A Web site titled "Technical Communicators at Work" (by a former classmate of mine)
and a Web site for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
So, by the reasoning that some have proposed here, and assuming that they are technical communicators already, should the judges have been required to work at Wal-Mart, buy a racehorse, volunteer with Habitat, and become mentally ill to have been allowed to judge the contest? That last one would have probably been easy after having to meet all of the other criteria.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Polley [mailto:Martinp -at- Surf-com -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:43 AM
To: Westbrook, Bryan; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: STC Letter to the Editor
This also assumes that the documentation being judged relates to a
Windows application. Lots of TW does not.
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