Re: STC Letter to the Editor

Subject: Re: STC Letter to the Editor
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:29:34 -0500


What I did say, which you ought to understand
> because you retyped it, is that assessing the technical accuracy of a
> document as part of the competition requires access to the product it
> documents, which STC does not have; and that such an assessment would, if
> done right, be too valuable a service to offer merely for the Competitions
> entry fee.


Many companies have demo versions. Many companies give software to reviewers.
It seems likely to me that the STC could evaluate technical accuracy without
much of a problem in the community. Why shouldn't submission of software be a
requirement for entry into an STC competition?

Bonnie Granat
http://www.editors-writers.info
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