RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

>As I've said before, modern English speakers have a grammatical 
>neurosis. The prime symptom of this neurosis is a greater concern with 
>grammatical correctness than with content.

Not all of us.  I didn't find that sig quote below...it is MY quote.
Personally, and I'm gonna take flack for this, my attention to grammar does
not make my top five considerations.

My deliverable should be:

1- useful
2- technically accurate
3- what my user and my boss wants
4- on time
5- appealing
6- grammatically correct 

Different factors will affect the top 4 (such as 4 will move up, maybe not
to 1, but up, if the document might hold up a release or a fix a Fatal
error). 

However, nothing makes 6 move up.

For those of you who agree, cool. For those who don't, tough?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
 "Be accurate...the 4am wakeup call you prevent could be your manager's"


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