RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting

[Phil Levy <phillevy -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

A couple of questions regarding Rebecca's comments:
>Already manuals are 
>improving as writers learn to
>perform user-samplings (testing the ease-of-use of 
>both the interface and
>its supporting documentation). 
Could you give an example of such a user-sampling? I
have never heard this term.

>The next step is to 
>ease communications
>between the technical writers and the 
>programmers/SMEs.
Actually, don't you think that XML will soon make it
easy for engineers to just fill in the blanks, thus
eliminating the need for most tech writers?


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