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Well said. Direct quote from, well, just about everyone I work with, "No one reads the manual."
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"I write those instructions people never read before they decide their new (insert today's hottest tech here) is a piece of junk because they can't figure out how to use it."
Gene Kim-Eng
On 7/3/2012 3:31 AM, Lane, Sion wrote:
> My wife insists on telling everyone that I am a writer, this leads to
> a lot of disappointed people when they are eventually introduced to me.
>
> I don't tend to use my proper title unless the person I'm talking to
> seems likely to know what a Technical Writer is, I go straight to "I
> write user guides for computer software".
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