Re: Examples of Bad Technical Writing?

Subject: Re: Examples of Bad Technical Writing?
From: Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:33:40 +1000

linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com wrote:


A good source of examples can be found here:

http://www.techstandards.com/contest.htm


Seems to me this contest should be divided to
differentiate between English documentation written
by people who should know better and obviously
badly translated manuals or those written by people
whose native tongue is obviously not English. (I
always figure I wouldn't be able to do any better
if I had to write in Japanese using a dictionary!)

-- Janice
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