RE: He said...She said...He said...etc. (Was Re: What's A TW Got To DO To Get A Job Around Here?!)

[Annamarie Pluhar <apluhar -at- mindspring -dot- com>]

Oh, I love this list. It's so provocative.

My partner works the way Andrew describes. He learns something 
thoroughly and then writes about it. Period.  As he says, that's 
writing.  (Mind you 5 years of Silicon Valley in the '80's burned him 
out and it's taken 11 to even consider doing anything techie again.)

But I think the reason there has been discussion of this issue is 
that there IS something between the "writing" and the "editing" as 
Andrew describes it. As an instructional designer, I've worked on 
creating training (which is it's own skill) with an abundance of 
technical documents,  PPT presentations, white papers and SME input. 
I think that what I bring to the project is a high degree of smarts 
with some technical understanding to judge what is relevant and 
important  to include in the training, and an ability to  work with 
SME's to that the content comes out right. It's not just writing - 
there's judgement, listening and interpersonal skills that come into 
play. And then there is organizing the information for a particular 
purpose.

That's creating something that wasn't there before, isn't it?

I do agree that - especially in the present job market - developing a 
niche of expertise is a survival strategy.  Maybe that's why I 
dreamed about doing work on ISO9000 standards, a return to my TQM 
work of the '80's. ? !

.Annamarie



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