Re: "Software Technical Writing is a Dying Career"

Subject: Re: "Software Technical Writing is a Dying Career"
From: John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
To: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:48:40 -0400

For some small. focused, and easy-to-grasp applications, little if any
documentation might be required. But large, complex, and multi-faceted
applications will never be intuitive. Stuff still needs to be explained.



On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
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> As always, the amount and type of documentation needed reflects
> requirements, use cases, design, and execution against all those. I swear I
> read this exact same article 20 years ago.
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References:
"Software Technical Writing is a Dying Career": From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: "Software Technical Writing is a Dying Career": From: Donald H White
Re: "Software Technical Writing is a Dying Career": From: Bill Swallow

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