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Subject:Re: What Are Writing Skills? From:Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:14:33 -0800 (PST)
Al:
If your engineer friend is a "hack" of a writer, he is
a "hack" of an engineer. Nobody, if they are trying
to produce quality work, changes mindsets going from
one deliverable to another.
Also, technical communications are artifacts, and all
effective artifacts are highly engineered (i.e.,
developed using, to the required degree, formal
analysis and design methods).
Tony Markos
Show Me Your DFDs
--- Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I know an engineer who thinks he's also a great
> technical writer. .... The end result was the
> engineer wrote and
> edited his own material, published it in print and
> to the web, and
> nobody used it because it was garbage. Ironically,
> it was only after a
> real technical writer joined the company and was
> able to work his magic,
> did people (management and customers alike) realized
> that their
> musician/comedian/engineer was nothing more than a
> hack writer whose
> arrogance didn't match his abilities.
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