RE: Are Indian Tech Writer Firms as good as American Firms?

Subject: RE: Are Indian Tech Writer Firms as good as American Firms?
From: "Suzanne Chiles" <suzchiles -at- pobox -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:20:13 -0700


I've had exactly the same reaction to documentation written by engineers who
were native English speakers. In my experience, though, British programmers
tend to write better than American programmers.

Suzanne


> >Are Indian Tech Writer Firms as good as American Firms? I would
> >think that not having english as your native tongue would hinder the
> >process as well as speaking more british english vs American english.
> >
> >Anyone have any positive or negative experiences they want to share?
>
>
> I can only comment on one instance in my experience. The people
> involved were handicapped by being programmers and not writers.
>
> Grammar was fractured, and while understandable, the text was
> comprehensible only after long examination to figure out what they
> were trying to say, and we had to have clarification from them to
> verify what they said was what they meant.


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