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Re: Younger tech writers?

Subject: Re: Younger tech writers?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Su-Lyn" <shirikit -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:11:46 -0800

Was the original in Chinese written by a "technical writer?"
I've edited a number of documents translated from Chinese
and Korean, and when I contacted the originators to obtain
source files, in every case the original author turned out
to be a design or service engineer.

So in many cases the answer to your question is yes, the
people who wrote that awful manual did get paid for the
work, but it was very possibly only a small part of their
job.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Su-Lyn" <shirikit -at- gmail -dot- com>

As a new tech writer (with a degree in it and everything!), I decided to
join the field because I thought that a majority of manuals and
documentation that I'd read had. . . significant room to improve. I was one
of the people who looked at the manual--written in Chinese and then
'translated' by Babelfish--and said, "They PAY people to do that?"

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References:
Younger tech writers?: From: Nancy Allison
RE: Younger tech writers?: From: Chris McQueen
Re: Younger tech writers?: From: Su-Lyn

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