Re: A dark take on Tech Writing...do you agree?

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

If the performance of the products you're documenting 
cannot be measured in exact numbers, perhaps not.  
I've encountered many products that convinced me 
they sprouted from some sort of alien pod rather than 
from an engineering process.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> I disagree with the idea that technical writing 
> is an engineering field. Things related to 
> engineering can be expressed in exact numbers, 
> and that is definitely not true of technical writing. 
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