RE: Technical Writer tests (again)

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

This discussion seems to be about the technical writing resources on
www.klariti.com.  I've visited this guy's web site before.  He's an
ambitious technical writer, Ivan Walsh, out of Ireland that sells a lot of
the stuff (templates mostly) that most of us take for granted.  If you're a
company looking to bypass needing a technical writer, then buying Ivan's
templates may seem like a good idea.  When the plan backfires, then hiring
Ivan may seem like a good idea.  I like the business model for some reason.

Here's Ivan's description of himself http://www.klariti.com/whatwedo.shtml.
The page is called "what 'we' do, but the content is all about what "I," as
in "Ivan" does, although he occasionally mentions "we."

He may have a lot of flaws in his tests and templates, but he found a good
niche to make a living as a technical writer that doesn't always write well
and probably doesn't work very many long hours.

Lauren
 

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> Behalf Of Dori Green
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:56 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Technical Writer tests (again)
> 
> Sarah Bouchier made several great points and also wrote:
> 
> It's what the 'test' /doesn't/ test that stands out for me.  
> Where's the
> information structuring?
> 
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> 
> THAT'S what was bothering me -- something was obviously 
> missing but I couldn't nail it to the floor.  Thank you, Sarah!
> 
> I think I'll put together some of my old Journalism 101 
> exercises (you bet I saved that book) for mechanics and 
> include a big set of "Organize these lists/paragraphs/topics 
> into meaningful order."
> 
> That should let me narrow the field, at least for an intern.
> 
> Next hurdle -- finding somebody who actually shows up every 
> day.  But that's another whole topic and not specific to TW.
> 
> Dori Green
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