Re: LONG - A colloquial writing style?

Subject: Re: LONG - A colloquial writing style?
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 07:58:19 -0700 (PDT)


> Are any of you writing more like this:
>
> Pressing the Panic button will draw the attention of
> emergency responders and your company's CEO, so you
> might want to think twice before doing that.

One of the most senior developers in the group writes this way. She
sent me some documents to PDF and I saw this statements:

-------------
...prone to errors is comparing data of varying data types in the xx.
This is a daunting task because all fields ...
-------------

She also happens to be the best writer I've ever seen in a
developer...maybe even better than me, but we'll keep that between
the two of us.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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