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Subject:Re: Pencil Test for Technical Writers From:Randy Grandle <randy -dot- grandle -at- CORP -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Aug 1996 18:49:54 GMT
Glanbrok, Slayer of Bluntskulls <conehead -at- overthe -dot- net> writes:
>Michael Wing wrote at length about a "pencil test" for tech writer =
>applicants. I for one applaud this idea. The number of unskilled people =
>(at least around Washington D.C.) who apply for, and get hired into, =
>tech writer positions is astonishing.=20
Right. Everyone is hiring "unskilled" writers.
I is a riter mr. manajer. Wood u higher me, pleez.
Evryune cept me is incomitint.
Get real.
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