Re: Techwriter Aptitude Test (A Daydream)

["Tamminga, Ernie" <et -at- DSC -dot- COM>]

Well, yeah... the technical writer you want is whoever wrote the leaflet
that the last guy read.

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Ernie Tamminga
Director, InfoEngineering
Digital Sound Corporation
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Opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of Digital
Sound Corporation

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  M. Dannenberg [SMTP:midannen -at- SI -dot- BOSCH -dot- DE]
>Sent:  Friday, November 07, 1997 4:58 AM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Techwriter Aptitude Test (A Daydream)
>
>This is just some kind of wild idea I had while walking home from lunch
>today, it's loosely connected to the recent thread on what makes a
>technical writer.
>
>Here's the scenario:
>
>You're looking for a technical writer. You've invited ten people for an
>interview. You sit them down in a room and hand each of them a
>shrinkwrapped box with a little digital alarm clock or some such
>appliance. Everybody tears open the package. Nine people take out the
>clock, start randomly poking at buttons look for the battery
>compartment, after a while they get the thing to display the time, a few
>people get it to display the correct time.
>
>One guy first takes out the instruction leaflet and reads it. After a
>while he's able to set the time correctly, adjust for time zones, set
>the alarm and switch between 12 and 24 hour display. Congratulations.
>You've found your technical writer.
>
>Or what?
>
>Mike
>
>


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