Re: Teaching a practical business writing class and looking for professional rubrics

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

More mistakes that the better writers try to avoid ...

  - The belief that using spell-checking software makes proofreading 
unnecessary.

  - Failure to re-write for clarity unless one is Isaac Asimov. (He 
claimed to be able to do clear writing in a single pass.)

  - Believing the stuff on the data sheet or the design spec without 
checking it against reality.

  - Not testing the newly written operating instructions on a suitably 
naive reader.

  - Giving in to the SME who says, "Stop finding bugs in my code!"

  - Forgetting that "first to market" sometimes trumps all of the above. 
("We don't want it right. We want it Monday!")
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