Re: 10 Things All Technical Writers Should Do

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Passion for work = Initiative to work.

A TW can be passionate about an assignment and still
be emotionally unattached to it.  If management
dictates that only so much rigor is appropriate, then
so be it.

It is all about employing a process that results in
professional growth.  Even when management wants class
C work, the TW can employ a class A process- just to
less of a degree of rigor.

Tony Markos

Show Me Your DFD's

--- Chuck Martin <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> wrote:


 A few quibbles.....
 
 Andrew Plato wrote:
 <snip>
 > 2. You have no emotional attachments to your work.
 You see it as product that
 > needs to be perfected, not an expression of
> yourself.
 
 I think you *can* have an emotional attachment to
 your work and still be 
 objective--if you understand that "your work" isn't
 just the writing, 
 but the product itself. Wanting to make that product
 (and its 
 documentation) perfect does involve active
 involvement, and some of it  involves passion.



		
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