Re: Variety in Tech Writing (was: Display, Displays, or Appears)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Practical points aside, I also wonder if I'm the only person
whose first thought on reading a document with "variety" in
its descriptions is that it was crafted by multiple writers who
are terribly bitter over the fact that J.K. Rowling sold millions
of Harry Potter books while their novels got nothing but
rejection letters...

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>

> Gene, your argument about liability applies only to a very small 
> fraction of the work done by technical writers. Yes there are 
> sometimes valid worries about liability. But most technical writers 
> never have to deal with medical software or something where the 
> instructions could be literally a matter of life and death.
>
> And, remember the *scale* of the thing we're talking about here. We're 
> not talking about writing a manual for a CAT scan machine in iambic 
> pentameter. We're not talking about DNA test instructions written in 
> Chinglish. We're talking about things like whether or not to bother 
> mentioning it when a new window opens.

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