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It's becoming difficult to say anything without its meaning being
changed.
Are you sure you aren't a lawyer? ;-)
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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:48 PM
To: Mike Schmidt; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Breaking into the tech writing job market
> assumptions that, say, an engineer might make about his audience. I've
> seen manuals written by the designer that are so difficult to
> understand, that it's not worth the effort.
> They write about the subject like they think about it...
> Not like they're trying to teach someone else.
The engineer or designer doesn't write poorly because he is an engineer
with knowledge. He writes poorly because while he may be a great
engineer, he is a poor writer. Don't penalize him because he has
knowledge. He just isn't paid primarily to write words...we are.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never
actually known what the question is."
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