RE: Rhetoric And Technical Writing?

[Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Percentage?

Never less than about 13-17%, except for technical reference manuals,
where it can go as low as, but never below, 5%.

Online training and marketing information can go as high as 38-42%.

Above 50%, it just becomes BS.

--- Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> --- Me Too <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> ...the actual use of training in rhetoric would be
> applicable in only a small fraction of technical
> documents. After all, technical docs are almost never
> intended to influence ways of thought or persuade
> people on how to decide things. 
> 
> Tony Markos responds:
> 
> I feel this way also, but I have been wrong before. 
> Anyone care to estimate the percentage of time that
> rhetoric would "come into play" in a tech comm
> project?
> 
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