RE: Writing technique (might previously have been literate minori ty)

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 Goldstein, Dan persuaded his keyboard to say:
 
> > ... I can't remember the last time I read a post from somebody 
> > who talked about writing for medical devices...
> 
> Do an Advanced Google for "medical device" on raycomm.com
> 
> We are on the list (Hi, Diane! H, Kat!), and we occasionally 
> post about our
> work.

Oh, I know I can *find* a few stray posts if I search. That 
wasn't the point. Given the size of the health-care industry 
and the number of companies that are making diagnostic and 
treatment devices, drugs, solutions, potions, lotions... 
you'd think that they would be much more strongly represented 
here. As I said, other industries *are* represented on CE-L, 
but that's the editing perspective. Yet it suggests that 
those editors are editing the work of writers in those other 
genres, but we don't hear from the writers (here in the 
techWRITERs mailing list).

It's not that all of us computer/software/telecomm folk are 
particularly boring and dreary, it's just that I'd like to 
see some other flavors and viewpoints represented. Or maybe 
they have their own lists, without us riff-raff.  :-)

You and Diane and Kat and one of the Lisas (offlist) represent 
a rather small percentage of however-many-thousand subscribers 
to Techwr-l... a smaller percentage than the massive size of 
that (health-care / medical) industry would seem to warrant.

I guess nobody in here will admit to working with Burt Rutan 
to document SpaceShip One...?  :-)

Kevin

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