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Re: Conceit, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Competition (long)
Subject:Re: Conceit, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Competition (long) From:"Porrello, Leonard" <leonard -dot- porrello -at- COMPAQ -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:11:56 -0700
Mark,
Surely you jest, no?
Leonard Porrello
Compaq, Telecom Division
Pubs, Omaha
402.384.7390
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 10:49 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Conceit, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About
> Competition (long)
>
> It is the sine qua non of tech writing that a tech writer be someone who
> is
> able to learn a product or process for which no training exists. It is the
> tech writer, after all, who creates the training materials from which
> others
> are trained. It follows that someone who requires training to become a
> tech
> writer cannot in fact become one at all, since they evidently lack the
> essential attribute of being able to pick something up without training.
>
>
