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Important Stuff They Don't Teach In Tech Writing School Was Re: School vs experience...
Subject:Important Stuff They Don't Teach In Tech Writing School Was Re: School vs experience... From:Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:18:40 -0700 (PDT)
IMPORTANT STUFF THEY DON'T TEACH YOU IN TECH WRITER
SCHOOL:
* Good technical communications is so simple and
straight forward, they will wonder what took you so
long. (This is a major reason for the lack of good
technical communications.)
* Management's Philosophy: "We don't want our
technical communications to be too clear; we make most
of our money off of training."
* There is no correlation at all between good
grammar and good technical communications.
>
> Jones, Donna wrote:
> > I wrote about this topic a few minutes ago under
> another subject
> > line, but I thought of something to add to it. In
> a situation like
> > Shannon's, if you take a job rather than spending
> another year to get
> > a master's degree, not only are you gaining
> valuable experience, but
> > your then-employer might even help you pay for the
> higher degree.
> > Getting experience and free education and getting
> paid for it at the
> > same time certainly has its advantages!
> >
>
> More than 99% of the people in the master's program
> at Northeastern that
> I was in were working in the field. I was the only
> one who was not!
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