RE: What do you guys think of STCs new definition fortechnical writer?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

I bet if you showed your 5-year-old niece how to perform the steps, she
would explain it back to you in a way that humble into technical writing
submission. 

Sometimes, kids have a simple way of explaining things that makes more sense
than what adults say.

Lauren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com

> Hmmmm. I have a 5-year-old niece. I wonder how she'd feel if 
> I sat her 
> down in front of a computer and tried to walk her through 
> some of the more 
> finicky Excel instructions I'm writing right now, which 
> involves lots of 
> copy and paste in special ways to special places in order to 
> get something 
> done (Og help me!).

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