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Subject:Re: What Are Writing Skills? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:44:56 -0800
I suspect the reason for this distinction is that there are other kinds
of writers besides technical writers, and many people - some of
whom have tried in past years to work as technical writers - with
the misconception that they are all interchangeable and that there
aren't any particularly special skills that a "writer" has to acquire
to become a "technical writer." Most technical writers can recount
at least one experience where they had to work with or follow in
the wake of a "writer" who lacked the technical and/or project
management skills to complete a "technical writing" project and
ended up having to be spoonfed information by developers and/or
constantly hammered by lead writers or managers to stop tweaking
prose and get on with finishing their work to meet schedule.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: <tstorer -at- free -dot- fr>
> I don't know why you want to divorce the analysis skills a writer needs
> from writing skills. How is the writer going to use that analysis if not
> to write?
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