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Subject:RE: What Are Writing Skills? From:"Jason Willebeek-LeMair \(jlemair\)" <jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:45:33 -0600
Of course you have to pay to get the steps. That is their product--a
step-by-step, structured method for creating documentation. Just what you
are looking for.
And, when my brand-spanking-new Visual Documentation methodology becomes
available, I would be happy to sell that to you too! TANSTAAFL!
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Markos [mailto:ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:03 PM
To: jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com; 'TECHWR-L'
Subject: RE: What Are Writing Skills?
Jason:
Thanks for the suggestion; however, that was one of the first places I
looked. The site shows what a final piece of structured writing looks like,
but only hints at how we get there.
Tony Markos
--- "Jason Willebeek-LeMair (jlemair)"
<jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com> wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Sounds like you are looking for InformationMapping.
> Google it. Have fun.
>
> Either that, or you are looking to make DFDs the Next Great Thing in
> documentation. Been there (but we called it something else). Spilled
> beer on the t-shirt. Not new. Not even really the Next Great Thing.
> Sorry. (But, you could probably make some money producing books and
> classes about it, like the InformationMapping folks did with their
> thing.
> You need to come up with
> a spiffy name, like VisualDocumentation (C)(TM)(R) [that one's mine
> now]).
>
> Jason
>
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