RE: Single most important tech writer skill?

["SM Rush" <sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com>]

> On their part, they
> neglected the fact that analyzing, interpreting, and integrating are all
> what I'd consider part of writing activities.

I think I disagree with this.  I separate the ability to analyze and
understand information from the ability to express it.

But I also think that both abilities are equally necessary for the tech
writer.  Otherwise, we have tech types who understand the stuff but can't
write a coherent sentence, and writer types who can write very readable
content but are incapable of anything other than regurgitating what a tech
type tells them.

It's the mesh of these two abilities that creates the wide range writers we
have, and of course the eternal arguments: "how much tech is enough tech?"
and "how can I understand my users if I already know the app?"
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sella rush
applied technical systems
silverdale, wa
developers of CCM knowledge discovery


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