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Subject:RE: SME vs. audience? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techpubs -at- genek -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:09 Sep 2003 19:38:16 GMT
If those were really my only choices, I'd probably go back
to being an engineer. Then I could write my own stuff and
grumble about the tech writers who "don't get it." :)
Gene Kim-Eng
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twriter01 wrote:
the SME and "one with my audience." However, that is not always the case. If you have to pick one path, which would you choose: be "one with your audience" and interview your SME for information that you know your audience needs, or become an SME, and then write for the intended audience, or do something completely different?
