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Subject:RE: What Are Writing Skills? From:"Oja, W. Kelly" <w -dot- kelly -dot- oja -at- verizon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:38:20 -0600
Tony spouted:
"I was told that the "meat" of writing skills is
structured writing skills. But try researching to
find the specific, concrete techniques and steps
involved in structured writing - they don't exist!
Structured writing is "blue smoke and mirrors".
Therefore, I conclude that writing skills don't exist.
We just analyze like and engineer, design like an
engineer, and then top it off with a little grammar."
BULL! Writing skills can be summed up in one single premise that applies
across the board from technical writing to fiction writing to news
writing and on and on and on: The ability to put words in such an order
that they are coherent to the reader. Bonnie hit the nail on the head
mentioning Rhetoric.
Not everybody has writing skills, and those that do have different
levels of ability. I am not making any assumptions here, but you can
have all the DFD's on the planet at your disposal and still not get the
message across when you put pen to paper.
"But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong."
-Dennis Miller
W. Kelly Oja
Verizon Airfone Inc.
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