RE: What Are Writing Skills?
Boy, one really needs to cover all bases when posting
on this listserv! Like when I post stating that
grammar skills are not very important to a TW,
inevitably someone will strongly object, basically
stating that if you are a complete grammar cripple -
like a third grade dropout - you are not going to be
able to write. Well yeah, but the truth is also that
if you have completed grammar 101 at least a grade of
B - which an awful lot of people have - you have all
the grammar skills you need to be a TW.
Tony Markos
Show Me Your DFDs
Hi Tony,
:) That's pretty much the way it works on any list, in my experience. One problem you're encountering is that techcomm encompasses a pretty wide range of activities: from documenting software to technical training to technology writing.
And, of course, we work in a range of industries and write for diverse audiences.
So, any blanket statement you make (including the one I just made about tech comm including technology writing which, IIRC. was the subject of much dispute a few years ago) isn't likely to comport with everyone's experience. Naturally, they'll object. :)
Yet, it's this very diversity that makes this list (and others like it) so valuable.
Kelley
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