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Subject:RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:21:59 -0400
Bonnie...I never said anything about accepting "ungrammatical" (BTW...does
the usage of that word, that way, comply with proper grammar?) I simply said
that when it comes to priorities, I place them in the that order.
If I only have time for one of the priorities, #1 comes first...if time for
two of them, then 1 and 2 come first....etc. If I have time to get to 6,
then I try to follow the rules as much as I can, but not at the expense of
the ones preceding.
I look at it this way....it may pass the test of an Oxford-trained editor,
but what good does it do if my boss hates it, my users have no use for it,
it erases the HD and crashes the network, and the software ships without it?
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"
-----Original Message-----
From: Bonnie Granat [mailto:bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:06 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Yahoo has no staff tech writers
> 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
>
>Because grammar exists only to support the communication of intended
>meaning, I can't conceive of something being "technically accurate" and
>ungrammatical. If there is confusion about the identity of or the
>relationships of elements signified in a sentence, one cannot with a
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