Re: Archimedes Socrates, ace tech writer, wins another one

[Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com>]

On 09/01/2001 7:50 AM, Michael West (mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- net -dot- au) wrote:

>The point of my little attempt at humor is that there are those
>frequent posters on the list who seem to believe that the users'
>needs really don't matter, and that the measure of a 'good' tech-
>writer is that he knows a lot of details about how the software
>was designed, and why. 

Funny, I've never seen any posts to that effect on this list. I *have* 
seen posts of the opinion that, if you don't know the details about the 
software, you'll be incapable of filling the user's needs well. Tech 
writing is neither writing skill nor technical acumen -- it is as 
thorough knowledge as possible of both.

Keep that humor coming, though...

----->Mike

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