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Subject:RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question From:"Ehr, Meg" <Meg -dot- Ehr -at- smartworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:28:55 -0500
Other - seems we're operating under the Andrew Plato "we don't need no
stinkin style guide" concept. We're just cranking out the docs. I'm sure a
style guide will come in time (it's a startup, after all), but for now,
we're winging it. Of course, as the sole permanent tech writer working on
business processes (we also have a perm in marcomm, but we haven't actually
worked together yet), I'm basically responsible for both determining and
applying style for our docs, so I suppose that's pretty liberating.
Meg Ehr
-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Ray [mailto:debray -at- raycomm -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:46 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
As a technical writer, I consider a consistently-applied
corporate style guide to be:
* Intolerably constraining
* Marginally constraining
* Neither constraining nor liberating
* Marginally liberating
* Extremely liberating
* Other/none of the above
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