RE: A suspected can of worms - knowing the future

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Thanks, Dick...this is not a rebuttal of your response below, just an
emphasis on a point to which we both seem to be leaning in the same
direction..

Prior profession, noting to do with technical writing, my boss introduced me
as "someone who when you ask what time it is, will tell you how to build a
watch".

I'd never heard of technical writing. Isn't this what we do? Will a college
degree give you this?

John Posada

BTW...in the event that someone is thinking, jeezzz..doesn't this guy WORK?,
for the last two weeks, most of what I've been doing is preparing 10 books
of documentation for distribution; write to PS, Distill, read, adjust,
generate, rePS, re-distill, etc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:56 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: A suspected can of worms - knowing the future



John,

I don't disagree. I was trying to convey that a liberal education, while it
is not _necessary,_ is very helpful. However, I did not mean to imply that
it is, by itself, _sufficient._ I agree with you that a desire to know how
stuff works and a love of explaining to other people how stuff works, among
other things, are necessary, too.

Dick



John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> wrote:

>This an other posts are going on the premise that with the right education,
>you can be a good technical writer who wants to be a technical writer.
>
>I disagree. You need a specific mindset. I guess this boils down to
>technical writers are born, not made.

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