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Subject:Re: What Are Writing Skills? From:keithwriter -at- hotmail -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:04:51 -0700
To me tech writing is largely *teaching*. And not everybody is who has
subject matter expertise is necessarily a good teacher. That's a different
skill.
Some absolutely awful documentation has been written by people who knew
their subject, but lacked the skill to communicate it successfully. I
think "writing skills" are like pornography - hard to define, but easy to
recognize. And in the case of writing, easy to recognize the absence of
such skills, too.
Keith C
Now take my wife, please. See, any idiot can write a funny sigline.
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