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Subject:Re: New slant: professionalism From:George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:59:15 -0700
Dear John,
It's never easy, is it? There are so many people in this business today
who've never had the opportunity to experience what we went through, and
it's their loss for it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Gilger [SMTP:JohnG -at- MIKOHN -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 10:28 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: New slant: professionalism
>
> George:
>
> I whole-heartedly concur!
>
> Many of today's "tech writers" haven't read a military tech manual,
> nor
> have they tried to write one.
>
> As a retired Navy CPO, I used them on a daily basis for operating,
> repairing and training personnel on the equipment. As a Tech writer
> for
> a major defense contractor, I had the challenge of trying to bring up
> the level of performance for our group to that same standard of
> writing.
>
> John Gilger
>
>
