Re: Tech writers are the new accountants

Subject: Re: Tech writers are the new accountants
From: john -at- garisons -dot- com
To: "Lin Sims" <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:09:33 -0500 (EST)

Tech writers are a distinct sub-species of writers in that we include
virtually nothing of our selves or our personalities in what we write.

Lin wrote:
> Might be an interesting survey question, especially if you added in
> other types of writers (journalists, magazine, ad, script writers,
> novelists, etc.) and then compared the results between those groups
> and tech writers and those groups (including tech writers) to the
> public at large...


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RE: Tech writers are the new accountants: From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: Tech writers are the new accountants: From: Lin Sims

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