RE: Tech writers are the new accountants

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

I think we do, because none of us would write the same documentation in
the same way. We differ. We write and document differently.

 
Craig Cardimon
Technical Writer
Marketing Systems Group
ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john -at- garisons -dot- com [mailto:john -at- garisons -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:10 AM
> To: Lin Sims
> Cc: Cardimon, Craig; Stuart Burnfield; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Tech writers are the new accountants
> 
> 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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