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Re: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers?
Subject:Re: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers? From:MaggiRos <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:24:03 -0800 (PST)
If I read the original quote correctly, Microsoft wants to
hire journalists to write their on-line help, not their
technical documentation.
Thing is, I never thought it was the writers who made MS
help so useless, but the corporate help style imposed on
them. Writers from a different discipline can't change
anything until MS changes the way they think about how they
do help.
Maggie
--- Mike Stockman <mstockman -at- mac -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Having done both journalism (small amounts) and technical
> writing (very
> large amounts), I think Microsoft is being smart here.
> The skills that
> go into journalism -- researching a topic, talking to
> people who have
> information, then writing the results in a way that is
> clear and
> understandable to your audience -- are exactly the same
> skills needed
> for technical writing.
>
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