RE: You're SUPPOSED to have good communication skills if you're a tech writer

["Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>]

Jan Henning wrote:

> > But I am perplexed by your assertion that a skill that you admit
> > cannot be
> > used in isolation is valuable in its own right.
>
> Money cannot be used in isolation either, still it is regarded as
> valuable. A technical writer cannot use technical knowledge in
> isolation (i.e., without literacy)) either, still such knowledge is
> regarded as valuable to have for writers. You cannot use a car engine
> in isolation, still few would not consider it valuable.
>
> What's perplexing?

Other than the fact that you have mysteriously dropped the phrase "in its
own right" from your statements above? Something is valuable in its own
right if its value stands alone. It is valuable only as a means to an end
(as money is) then it is not valuable in its own right.

Money is only valuable when there is something to buy. Writing is only
valuable when there is something to say.

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