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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 10:03:53 -0400
If I'm working on #1 and #2, and to do so, grammar gets addressed, then
cool. However, I'm not going to address grammar for the sake of
grammar...I'm going to address accuracy and if by doing so, accuracy is
enhanced by grammar, great...it may be enhanced by testing, by verification,
by rewording, by any number of factors...but the priority is getting it
accurate...I don't care how.
Grammar alone isn't going to make it accurate, but making it accurate by
happen through grammar...but accurate comes first.
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: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:50 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Yahoo has no staff tech writers
From: "John Posada" <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
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.
>
And I am saying that if you don't attend to #6, you may lose all the
others.
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