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RE: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?
Subject:RE: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:36:16 -0400
Their relationship is cause and effect, rather than comparative
importance: Tech writing skills directly affect reader or user
comprehension.
Or to look at it from the other side: Reader or user comprehension is a
good measure of tech writing skills.
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> ... "Writing skills" may be overrated; it is the comprehension
> of the reader or user that matters most, not the writing skill
> of the writer...
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