Re: 'Know thy audience'; was: RE: What is 'well Written'?

Subject: Re: 'Know thy audience'; was: RE: What is 'well Written'?
From: "elizabeth j allen" <eja -at- samurai -dot- com>
To: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:46:53 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Ned,

It seems to me that because our work involves creativity, you want to call
it art.

Not everything that requires creativity is art. And it is certainly true
that not all "art" requires creativity.

Elizabeth
--
Elizabeth J. Allen
Technical Writer
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein


Ned Bedinger said:
> John Posada wrote:

>> Couldn't have said it better, and in fact, I object to calling what
>> we do as an "art"
>
> I appreciate what you're saying, John and Gene, and to a certain extent
> I agree with John that art isn't sufficient to explain what we do, but
> IMHO it is necessary to explain what we do. We don't wear berets and
> critics don't talk about the aesthetic value of our output, but we do
> plenty of creative, synthetic design.


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