White papers?

["Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

Michelle Coffey wonders: <<What exactly is a White Paper?>>

This has been discussed at some length quite recently; hit the techwr-l
archives for full details. The short answer is that there's no standard
definition and that a white paper is whatever the author or client defines
it to be. It can be a technical document, marketing bumf, a position
statement, an educational piece, or pretty much anything else the human mind
can think up.

Thus, the more relevant question is not "what is a white paper?", but rather
"when someone asks me to create one, just what the heck do they want me to
create?" <g>

--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada 
"User's advocate" online monthly at
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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."--Goethe


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