Re: Help - my consultants cannot write!

[Ruth Sessions <ruthsessions03051 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Steve:

Since this is a list mostly used by writers, I think that some people are not aware that the person asking the initial question was not talking about technical writing consultants, but about engineering consultants. 

Ruth 
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From: Steve Schwarzman <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com>
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Subject: Re: Help - my consultants cannot write!


There's something that's been mentioned several times now by several posters that has me wondering, namely that consultants should by definition be good writers/communicators.

Is this so? I don't know the security business, to go back to Andrew's question, but isn't it possible that someone could really be great at analyzing a security setup, identifying any holes, and recommending the necessary fixes, without being a good writer?

I mean, are we in the writing business assuming that all consultants are writers because that's the kind some of us are?

Just asking.

Steve Schwarzman
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