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RE: Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing
Subject:RE: Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing From:Maggie Pierce Secara <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:42:14 -0700 (PDT)
Not so much that they could or couldn't write, but
that they didn't *want* to do the writing. It took
time away from the fun stuff--whatever development
they were involved in--which is why they became
engineers in the first place.
And I suspect it's still true that no matter how well
some engineers or programmers or developers (or other
people who employ writers) write, most of them would
still rather someone else did it.
Maggie Secara
--- Anita Legsdin <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com> wrote:
> As for the comment below: isn't that where we
> started, about 50 or so
> years ago? The way the story was told to me was that
> technical writing
> arose as a profession because engineers were (at
> that time) such lousy
> writers.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike O. [SMTP:obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> > Just like typesetters were eliminated when tech
> writers started doing
> > their own
> > DTP, so tech writers are eliminated when engineers
> do their own tech
> > writing.
=====
Maggie Secara
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