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Subject:RE: Teaching others how to fish From:"Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:59:57 -0400
Daniel Ng wrote:
Where writers are very limited in number, finding writers to fill the
growing number of requests is pretty hard.
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Until every decent writer is gainfully employed in their chosen field, I don't see this as a problem.
I've been trying to set up "how to gather and use information" meetings disguised as "quality improvement" -- gee, does anybody think there might be a connection? Got told "just write the instructions, quit wasting everybody's time with this 'quality' stuff." Hokay fine.
Dori Green
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