Re: What Are Writing Skills?

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

Solution:  Journalism and English programs should
teach Data Flow Diagramming!

Tony Markos

--- Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> wrote:

> Tony Markos wrote:
 
> > In terms of documenting systems, of
> > course English Departments don't understand how to
> > structure documentation!  As Ed Yourdon (Data Flow
> > Diagram guru) teaches: Systems are
> multidimensional;
> > English (text) is one dimensional; it is not
> possible
> > to effectively document a multidemensional system
> > using single dimensionsional text. 
 
I could say exactly the same thing about a novel or
a poem. Reality  consists of a complex series of
interlocking systems, and any attempt to describe them
using language is going to be
incomplete and inexact. Writers in all sorts of fields
feel this limitation regularly. In this 
sense, documentation is only a special case of writing
in general.



		
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