Re: Yay or Nay - OP

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

Not to worry. If general literacy in the candidate pool declines, it'll just 
reduce the competition the more capable candidates will have.

Of greater concern to our profession, I think, is a decline in literacy in 
our user base.  I'm not TOO worried about the engineers and scientists who 
use the stuff I work on not being able to read simple instructions, but I 
can see how someone doing documentation for consumer goods may eventually 
have to develop the necessary skills to become a mangaka,

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DaLy" <swiggles247 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
The tie in, IMHO, is the competency level of the next generation of 
Technical Writers. At my last job, I wrote code comments directly in the .c 
and .h files using DevC++ IDE (we gave the source code to our customers). A 
spell checker was not an option; I was the spell checker.


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