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Subject:Re: Breaking into the tech writing job market From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net> Date:Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:54:29 -0700 (PDT)
> an excellent example of our target audience. But after two
> or three months they began to become blind to the insights
> that are especially open to the good writer who is seeing
> a new thing for the first time.
Hi, Peter...a good writer isn't going to change how they write,
regardless of whether they are seeing a feature for the first time or
not. Familiarity with the feature in not an issue because a good
writer writes for a novice audience according to an approach, and can
repeat this approach over and over.
Good writing doesn't happen based on a point in time...it's
intentional and repeatable.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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