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When I was a little older than your son is now, I used to edit my Dad's
grant proposals for NIH (organic chemistry, looking for NCI funding).
Obviously, there were lots of words that I had to skip over -- I was
mostly giving it the ol' Strunk & White. Anyway, he got some pretty good
editing for free.
One time when I was doing this, Dad mentioned that there was a dearth of
good writers at the many chemical journals that he subscribed to. He
suggested that I consider a career in technical writing. I scoffed at
the suggestion; it took about 20 years to discover that Dad was right
all along.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Schmidt
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: R-E-S-P-E-C-T me! (Please!)?
>
> I don't know if this quite fits in this subject, but I just had to
> share. We have/had a big software release that was to go out
> yesterday... but didn't. On Friday, I was told I had to do whatever it
> takes to have the manual ready... so I took it all home on my geek
> stick, and a printout on paper. Sunday was beautiful, so I sat out on
> the deck with my 12-year-old son. He did his homework while I
> did mine.
>
> At one point, I had to check his math, so, while I did that,
> I gave him the red pen and the manual and told him what I was looking
> for.
>
> Oh, I was updating an existing manual with stuff submitted to me by
> someone else (who did not follow the writing conventions I hand out to
> everyone who submits stuff to me). So he had to look for those
> specifics.
>
> He went nuts. I couldn't believe how well he did. By the time
> I finished checking he math, he'd practically emptied my red pen.
>
> This is a resource I shall use again.
>
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