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Subject:RE: What to do about writing samples From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:19:04 -0500
There are two issues to consider. Copyright and proprietary safeguards.
Copyright is to prevent someone from making money on your work or
plagiarizing your ideas as their own.
Proprietary safeguards are different. If you went to test at Company A (a
telecom) with the price list from Company B (the same type of telecom and a
competitor), then that is wrong.
OTOH, if you went to a test at Company A (an aerospace company) on how to
perform a hydraulics overhaul, with part of the instructions on how to run a
web replication procedure from Company B (an e-commerce web site company),
do you think either Company A or B is going to care much?
Whatever you are going to use, be cautious and take normal precautions. You
should be fine.
John Posada
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From: Andrew Plato [mailto:gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:08 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: craig -dot- cardimon -at- att -dot- net
Subject: Re: What to do about writing samples
<craig -dot- cardimon -at- att -dot- net> wrote...
>
> I was going to use a copyediting test as a sample of my technical/medical
> writing skills. I wanted to show what it looked like when I got it and
then
how
> it looked after I fixed it. Before and after. Someone said I shouldn't do
that
> because it might violate copyright. I wasn't going to identify the entity
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