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Re: Hi-Tech Company Hasn't Used Tech Writers in Years
Subject:Re: Hi-Tech Company Hasn't Used Tech Writers in Years From:"John Posada" <writer -at- tdandw -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:28:41 -0500
I'm simpler than that..
If the documents are not meeting their ultimate purpose,
then regardless of who is doing what, the documents are not
doing what they are supposed to. The rest is just a way of
passing blame to someone/somewhere else.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
writer[at]tdandw.com
>
> Unless the contracting agency is rejecting the documents
as
> currently produced, they apparently *are* meeting their
contract
> requirements.
> From: "John Posada" <writer -at- tdandw -dot- com>
>
> > Then it wasn't "too good". It wasn't even good. A good
> > document is a document that complies with it's
requirements.
> > If one of the requirements is to contain a set of
required
> > elements, and it doesn't, then it is a lousy
document...and
> > if the writer doesn't see that, then the writer is lousy
> > also.
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