RE: Rhetoric And Technical Writing?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

Tony Markos wrote:

> 
> I feel this way also, but I have been wrong before. 
> Anyone care to estimate the percentage of time that
> rhetoric would "come into play" in a tech comm
> project?
> 

It becomes a part of how you think about speaking and writing in all
situations and a part of how you execute those actions. 

Try to think of it as a global awareness. 

There is not a single element of effective technical writing that does not
stand on the bedrock of the fundamental principles of rhetoric.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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