RE: Tech Spec vs Functional Spec was RE: What are you working on?

Subject: RE: Tech Spec vs Functional Spec was RE: What are you working on?
From: "Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:09:30 -0500

Richard Lewis wrote:

<it is a Functional Specification that is so unfunctional that no one dares
call it such. So, to call it something, they give it the catch-all name of
Techincal Specification.>

Yikes! By extrapolation, does _that_ explain why some of us are called
"technical writers" even when we're writing about business processes rather
than technology? Somebody decided that we were unfunctional writers so we
must be technical writers?????

Dori Green

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