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France...with only enough practice, you could be superb at reading music and
making the right sounds come out of the instrument. However, without the
inclination to being a musician (which cannot be taught), you'll never be
Charlie Parker or Miles Davis and you could practice the scales from now
until the year 2010, and you'll never be Placido Domingo.
Keith...what do you think of this?
To be good mechanically at something, practice will get you there, To be
great at it, you need an internal ability.
That's all I'm saying about techwriting...you can get enough education to
give you the ability to craft a perfectly composed paragraph...but without
the internal ability, you won't create a special deliverable.
...or have I gotten threads mixed up?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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From: France Baril [mailto:France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:31 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Frustrated
Anyone can do almost anything, if anyone takes the time to learn and do
something, but everyone does not have the time to learn and do everything.
I could be I good musician if I practiced, even maybe a good singer if I
practiced a lot and got a good teacher. I could be a good gymnast, but I
started too late. I can do... OK maybe not everything, but it is probably
true that someone who has the capabilities for R&D has the capabilities to
write simple procedures. The problem is that they have other priorities and
therefore do not take the time to read about best practices and perform that
task as well as someone whose main objective is to write and review these
procedures.
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