RE: Important Stuff They Don't Teach In Tech Writing School Was Re: School vs experience...

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Markos 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:19 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> ...Management's Philosophy: "We don't want our
> technical communications to be too clear; we make most
> of our money off of training."

This is apparently the management philosophy at Tony's workplace. It is not
the philosophy at any company I have ever worked for. YMMV

>   *  There is no correlation at all between good
> grammar and good technical communications.

I have seen users assume that technical documentation was technically faulty
and unreliable, simply because of flagrantly poor spelling and grammar. If
the users don't think the manual is reliable, then it fails the "good
technical communications" test. YMMV

Dan Goldstein

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