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Re: A technique to get on development's good side

Subject: Re: A technique to get on development's good side
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:22:04 -0400


I've been on a few interviews where the folks are afraid that they're
going to get another tech writer "just like the last one" who screwed
up everything and needed an explanation of what software really was,
and all that. Remember when we had to use bad technical typists or
keypunch operators? And we were constantly re-correcting the same
mistaken "corrections" to our work? I think it's from all that.

Mike O. wrote:

You know, this list offers so much good advice on how to overcome the
divide between tech writers and developers. I too have my techniques.
But did you ever ask yourselves why that divide exists in the first
place? Why do tech writers, of all other people on the team, have to
overcome this artificial barrier placed in their path?

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