RE: Knowledge is manufactured?

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

> > Technical communicators make information cheese (or wine, or
yeast...).

>I would be oh so satisfied if the people providing the information
would
>just cut it up into bite-sized pieces.  Or provide me with a knife.

May I suggest a rephrasing?

'At one end of technical communication, there is a cow.  At the other
end, there is fine Brie.  Nobody enquires too closely into what happens
in between.'

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Sarah Bouchier 
Technical Author 

exony 

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