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Subject:Re: This too is technical communication From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Kevin Amery <kevindamery -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
Short of training attack dogs to eat bad writers, I
think the main things we could do would be to find
good documentation and praise it and make companies
aware that they could've had something of that
quality. There's an odd chumminess to the industry
that sometimes prevents this from happening, but it's
to all of our benefit to put our best foot forward.
--- Kevin Amery <kevindamery -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Uhhh.... how?
>
> Lawyers can be disbarred. Doctors can lose their
> licenses. But how,
> precisely, would you kick someone out of the TW
> profession?
> (Especially when there are some companies out there
> who have junior
> developers or admin assistants write their docs.)
> How exactly would
> you enforce that someone would never be allowed to
> write a manual
> again? What's to stop a clueless company from hiring
> them?
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