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Your casual refernce to the qualification of judges
reminded me of an experience I had judging an STC
competition. The lead judge in our group asked her
team to give our overall impression of a particular
entry, and one numbskull said, "I didn't like it. It's
too technical and has too much jargon."
Never mind that the entry was a publication directed
to a highly educated, academic audience!
Steven Brown
Technical Writer
--- Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Recognition from your peers is always a good thing,
> as
> is a self-congratulatory pat on the back.
>
> But, I am much more skeptical about the real value
> of
> industry competitions--beginning with the training,
> experience, and qualification of the judges to
> questioning how much the non-techwriter-bosses
> really
> pay attention . . .. For example, I don't see an
> employer making a decision to not lay-off technical
> writers, and lay off more of some other group, say
> engineers or programmers, because of an award the
> technical writers just won . . . though, I'd like to
> be wrong about that. ;?)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
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