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Re: Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing
Subject:Re: Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing From:"Svi Ben Elya" <svib -at- bezeqint -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:49:18 +0200
I don't think we should see our job as churning out documents, but rather
facilitating use of the product(s) we write about. For me, it is far more
satisfying to help users not need my documents than to have them read the
documents to be able to use the product. In my opinion, this increases the
value of the TW, even if it reduces the value of many of his/her documents.
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From: "Mariana Prusorova" <mprusorova -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing
>
> It would be interesting in what the techwriters find their motivation for
> working so hard? Please, share some ideas.
> In software development particularly, the latest trends are for "zero
> learning" - interfaces are so easy to navigate that the users don't need
to
> read any documents. The usability test in our company also proved that
only
> about 5% are refering to the help or printed documentation of any kind.
> As a freshman in the branch (2 years) I am starting to loose my
motivation -
> for whome am I acually writing?
> I waist my time writing whitepapers for my colleagues from development
> departments, then they come to me asking: "Please explain me how it works,
I
> know that you know it you have written about it probably.., and you know,
I
> don't feel like reading whitepapers"
>
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