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Re: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers?
Subject:Re: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers? From:"Mike Stockman" <mstockman -at- mac -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:34:12 -0500 (EST)
Having done both journalism (small amounts) and technical writing (very
large amounts), I think Microsoft is being smart here. The skills that
go into journalism -- researching a topic, talking to people who have
information, then writing the results in a way that is clear and
understandable to your audience -- are exactly the same skills needed
for technical writing.
Whatever your opinion of journalists, they're cut from the same cloth we
are, and many journalism majors (no, I wasn't one) have the skills to
make excellent technical writers.
Mike
Lois Patterson wrote on 10/29/2003, 4:53 PM:
> How do you think this would work? Is it a mistake to
> exclude "standard" tech writers?
>
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