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Re: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?
Subject:Re: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career? From:"John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> Date:Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:04:01 -0400
Lauren...it's a casual survey...not a step in creating a nuclear device.
They don't have to be synonymous because there is an OR in the
sentence. If it is one or the other, then you answer YES. If it is
neither, then it is a NO.
The question could very well have been "Is the tree green or is the coffe hot?".
If you have a tree and it is green, then the answer is YES.
Aside from that, ya gotta stop fretting about a question that means
zero in the scheme of things.
On 8/7/08, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> How do you answer the question, "Is technical writing a sellout or fallback
> career?" with a yes or no answer? Are "sellout" and "fallback" synonymous?
>
> If one is selling out, then what is that person selling out of? As a
> "fallback career," wouldn't a fallback be the same as a starting point? So
> what is the ultimate ambition? The poll question is not well-formed.
--
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President
'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
-- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
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