Re: Knowledge is manufactured?

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yes, I guess that's why some of them are called cookbooks. The other analogy
is not parallel. We're taking the proteins beyond digestion and only
pre-processing in the other. Unless you're talking about making cheese. Yes,
Technical communicators make information cheese (or wine, or yeast...).

Edwin

Trivia: The banyan tree, found in India can only grow from a seed that has
passed through the digestive system of a crow/bird.

On 8/7/07, jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com <jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:
>
> True, you cannot digest food for someone else, but you can make it more
> digestible or more palatable or both. That's what cooking is all about, is
> it not?
>
> Jim Shaeffer
>
> P.S. I often think of technical communication as being analogous to the
> way the body metabolizes protein. Our bodies ingest proteins, then break the
> proteins down into amino acids and then reassemble the amino acids into
> human proteins. Technical communicators absorb information from various
> sources, break it down and then reassemble it into forms more appropriate
> for the target audience.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Skau <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>
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> Subject: Re: Knowledge is manufactured?
>
> ummmm, not really....
>
> Knowledge is assimilated information. If you read something and can't figure
> out what the heck it is about, that's not knowledge, although some
> businesses may call it so (in cricket they have something they call an
> abdomen guard...).
>
> Assimilating information is like digesting food. You can't do  it for
> somebody else... and....
>
> Edwin
>
>
>
> > Lessons there for those willing to learn from them. If we hope to
> > succeed in the workplace, we really do need to create something new
> > ("manufacture knowledge", if you prefer), not merely digest knowledge
> > and pass it along.
> >
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