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Subject:Re: RE: Are best practices standards? From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:48:57 PDT
Good technical communications is highly engineered. That is: high usability
= highly task oriented and highly task oriented = highly modular (based on
the engineering principle that each module should only accomplish one
essential task).
There is no such thing as "engineers do engineering and tech writers do
writing." We all do engineering; just that engineers (at least in theory)
perform a more rigorous analysis than do tech writers.
Analysis, if it is to have any rigor at all, must be performed by following
defined processes.
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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