RE: Professional respect

[Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- NILS -dot- COM>]

It seemed to me that this time, the complaint was not about getting respect
for the poor pitiful tech writer, but for documentation's place in the
cosmic scheme of things.  That's not *personal* respect.  You can't earn it,
because it isn't about you.  Some people just don't see docs, good ones or
bad, as having anything to do with the product, their work, or anything
else.

But as someone said, the developers' opinion is probably not the one you
need to care about, as long as they come through with reviews and
information as necessary. I'll bet Sales, and your boss, knows what a
difference it makes to provide proper documentation with the package.



Maggie Secara
"Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard
to understand."
	~Slogan button seen at a techie convention

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gordon Graham [mailto:gordon -at- gordonandgordon -dot- com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:25 AM
>To: TECHWR-L
>Subject: RE: Professional respect
>
>
>Hi Meena et al:
>
>"Not getting any respect" has been a oft-voiced complaint as 
>far as I can
>remember in tech writing circles (20+ years). And undoubtedly earlier.

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