Re: Improving the Quality of the List - Long Response

Subject: Re: Improving the Quality of the List - Long Response
From: "Herman Holtz" <h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:36:09 -0500

> However, what pulls my (and others...and I can speak for others
> because it HAS been discussed) chain is when a question demonstrates
> one of two flaws.
>
> The first one is a disinterest in learning the skills needed to know
> HOW to do this job. A large part of this job is to be a
> detective...digging for features in a product, digging for
> information from developers, digging for solutions to address sticky
> application features, pursuing information from those that have it
> and won't share it with us. These skills are not specific to an

I think the skills you refer to in your post are the skills of writing,
regardless of whether what one is writing is disinguished by being called a
"computer book," "technical writing," or otherwise distinguished from
writing in general. I believe that what we hold to be true (or what we
should hold to be true) for any writing applies to all writing. I have been
a technical writer, written computer books, contributed to newspapers,
written books on general business subjects, contributed to trade journals,
written a few audiovisuals, and written many training programs--lecture
guides, lesson plans, programmed instruction, etc--and I have so far not
found any of the basic principles of writing that do not have application to
all writing.
- Herm










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