RE: ISO 26514 draft ready for comment [long]

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Yeah, but I wasn't reading the draft of a software spec. I was reading
the draft of a documentation standard!

Just as with resumes: Substandard English indicates a bigger flaw in a
tech writer than in a software engineer.

Frankly, I'm much more interested in Gene's question: How does this
standard differ in purpose from ISO 18019?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:10 AM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: ISO 26514 draft ready for comment [long]
> 
> --- Dan Goldstein wrote:
> 
> > By the time I got to Section 4 (Definitions), I was already
> > discouraged.
> > Why is nothing capitalized? Why is the indefinite article only
> > occasionally used?
> 
> Why are you acting like the SMEs that we complain about on a daily
> basis? We all complain how SMEs stop reviewing for technical content
> as soon as they find a misspelling.
> 

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