Re: What Are Writing Skills?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

It is "special" in that the processes are often specific to the
particular industry, technology or product being documented,
just as the marketing, design, manufacturing, quality and
other parts of a company's development processes are.
The common part of "structuring" your writing, product design,
manufacturing, inspection, service, etc. is not to conform
to some sort of universal "magic bullet" process, but to
understand, standardize and document *your own* process,
and to disseminate the knowledge and skills required to make
it work in order to ensure reliable, repeatable, traceable results 
within your own operating and/or regulatory environment.  This 
is the guiding principle behind various process improvement 
and quality management systems, such as Six Sigma, the ISO 
standards, etc., and it is what makes your deliverable "structured."  
You're doing things you've done before using methods consistent 
with methods that have an established record or working for you 
before, and not reinventing the wheel or sacrificing chickens
every time you launch a new project.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Oh, I have heard what everyone has, basically in
> unison, been said.  I  just have a very hard time
> understanding it.  In order to create a structured
> deliverable, you have to employ a fairly rigorous
> structured process (specific steps and techniques). No
> mystery here.
> 
> Yet what I hear is that structured writing is
> "special":  You can do pretty much do whatever floats
> your boat and create a structured deliverable.  This
> is a true mystery to me.  I was hoping to get an
> explaination.



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