RE: Due care (was RE: Benchmarking Technical Documentation)

[bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]

The problem with your position is that you are equating grammatical
proficiency with technical proficiency.

I don't consider them great tech writers, but I have worked with people who
were rather week on the grammar side but knew the technical information.  On
the other hand, I have also worked with someone who was a grad school tech
comm dropout, but never bothered to learn the technical end of the project
(this was at the same job).

Guess which one caused us more problems with re-writes.



-----Original Message-----
From: KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com
[mailto:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:26 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Due care (was RE: Benchmarking Technical Documentation)

How confident are you going to be that the slob 
writer suddenly decided to step out of character 
and check/verify the info, just for you?


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