Re: Advice for a New Tech Writer

Subject: Re: Advice for a New Tech Writer
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:14:37 -0700


John Posada wrote:

Forget what tech writing experience you have...we ALL have technical
writing expereince, so that isn't a great differenciation. That's
like basing your credentials on tool knowledge...you are expected to
know the tool, now use the tool FOR something.

Ordinarily, I avoid "I agree" posts. However, this point is so important that I wanted to stress it by chiming in. On the whole, subject expertise carries you further than tool knowledge.

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