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Subject:Re: An observation about INTERCOM From:Goober <techcommgoober -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Aug 2002 07:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
All the time. I think it's the easiest way to get a
point across though - wipe out all the conflicts and
present your points in a utopian context. It may not
be the best way to persuade your readers, but it's the
easiest way to write. *g*
By the way. Technical Communication (Aug 2002) has a
call for papers for a special Single-Sourcing issue. I
hope all the true experts on this list submit, so the
journal isn't riddled with out of context technobabble
from the wonderful world of academia. :)
--- David Downing <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> wrote:
>
> The recent criticism of the INTERCOM article
> reminded me of another
> thing I've noticed about a number of their articles,
> and I was wondering
> if anyone else has noticed it. They seem to assume
> that the reader is a
> totally autonomous being who an do whatever he/she
> pleases with
> documentation or at his/her place of employment.
>
> One example is in the most recent issue -- the
> article on marcom
> writing, which kind of makes it sound like you can
> just take a notion to
> breeze on over to the advertising department and
> work there for awhile.
> Another was an article on using various types of
> rhetoric in your
> documentation. This assumes you can just do your
> own thing with the
> documentation and never mind your company's style
> guide.
>
> Anybody else noticed this?
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