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Re: Logic and the art of communication (was Real Writers - WRITE)
Subject:Re: Logic and the art of communication (was Real Writers - WRITE) From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:32:48 -0700
David Berg wrote:
> Of course I'll beg to differ. I'm a communicator. The doctor that originated
> the material I worked with is a medical expert.
I'm not sure what a "communicator" is; it could mean almost
anything. I do know that I tend to distrust the word. For me, it's a
word that obscures rather than clarifies. Too often (although I say
nothing about your case), it's used by people who want to inflate
their own importance.
Andrew's claim that you weren't a writer sounds insulting, but it
might be more accurate to say that you were doing more copy editing
than writing. That's a demanding and rewarding job in itself, but it
isn't writing, although closely related. And, at times, it turns
into writing. That may have happened in your case, although
obviously I can't say for sure.
> It certainly was a vast change from his
> original content, but it was technically accurate and consistently
> maintained the original message. It turned out so well he decided to submit
> it to the AMA to qualify as CME credit for physicians.
>
> > REAL WRITERS - WRITE. Real writers take nothing and turn it into
> something.
It sounds to me as if David and Andrew aren't as far apart as they
seem to think. Maybe rhetoric is obscuring the fact?
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