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Subject:Re: Make It Pretty From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:07:28 -0800
At 0:44 11/17/94 -0800, Richard Mateosian wrote:
>The programmers have already written the documentation. We just want you to
>stick in the commas and ship it. ...RM
>Richard Mateosian Technical Writer in Berkeley CA srm -at- c2 -dot- org
I had just the opposite happen when I was doing hardware documentation for
a major telecommunications company. My immediate boss was an Israeli,
working for an Arab, working for a Korean. All excellent engineers, but
none was a native English speaker. My direction usually was: "Just tell
the story!"
Regards,
Marc
M_a_r_c_ A. _S_a_n_t_a_c_r_o_c_e_________________________
Technical Writer/Trainer
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
300 Lakeside Dr.
Oakland, CA 94612-3540
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