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Re: Examples of good tech writing?

Subject: Re: Examples of good tech writing?
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:09:43 -0500

Julie,

You may differ without the begging. However, the OP did not ask specifically about technical writing for the corporate world. Obviously a lot of people find the writing in the Idiot's Guides and Dummy's Guides to be appropriate for their needs. Otherwise they wouldn't keep buying them. And I've seen a lot of those books in corporate cubicles, frankly.

Don't you suppose that internal documents at Southwest Airlines (not repair manuals but perhaps flight attendant training manuals) might have a flavor that's rather less stuffy than, say, those at Delta? Maybe Southwest isn't "corporate" enough for your tastes, but there is room in the world for tastes to differ, n'est-ce pa?

Dick

Julie Stickler wrote:

I would beg to differ. I find that while there is good information in
these guides, that the style is too breezy and informal. I would
definately not adopt that type of informal style for anything that I
was writing for the corporate world.

Julie Stickler

On 1/10/06, arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com <arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:

Idiot's Guides and Dummy's Guides.

But that's just my opinion.

:)
Arroxane

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