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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:"Heidi Liebl-Slabinski" <heidi -dot- liebl -dot- slabinski -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- accu-time -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:14:02 -0600
Sheesh... sorry I asked!
I think John and Sean are correct -- and so is Lauren. Maybe I was
overthinking it, but the question could have been posed differently to avoid
any possible confusion. I'm with Lauren. We should be able to do better.
A round of beer should ease us toward the weekend!
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Sean Brierley <sbrierley -at- accu-time -dot- com>wrote:
> Oh, do go on ....
>
> Grins,
>
> Sean
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> I think that technical writers, especially those with web sites about
> technical writing, like the one that features the poll, should be able
> to write without creating contradictory inferences, like the poll does.
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> Lauren
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> > From: Sean Brierley
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> > Yes. Many are.
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