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RE: What do you assume as basic audience vocabulary?
Subject:RE: What do you assume as basic audience vocabulary? From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:16:00 -0600
Some of the best advice I've ever received was from my 10th grade English
teacher (who is also a journalist):
"Assume nothing and trust nobody."
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From: Kim McGarghan [mailto:kmcgarghan -at- nssolutions -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:39 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: What do you assume as basic audience vocabulary?
went out with detailed TOC but no index.] But this leads me to ask, what do
we assume is basic audience vocabulary? Our manual is aimed at the network
administrator who has at least one year's experience working in a Windows
environment.
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