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Subject:What is a White Paper? From:"Perry Moore" <perrya -at- jps -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:07:14 -0700
I have a recruiter who has contacted me about writing "white papers" on a
variety of topics. What are white papers? Just informational writing on a
topic? what is their purpose? is there a format?