Re: Doc Design and Convention ( was TECHWR-L Digest, Vol 48, Issue 27)

Subject: Re: Doc Design and Convention ( was TECHWR-L Digest, Vol 48, Issue 27)
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:48:47 -0800

If a company provides me with a document set as part of its presale
presentation, one of the things i look for is an indication that they know where
to put different kinds of information. User manuals that read like advertising
brochures for a company's other products - or worse, like advertising brochures
for the very product the reader has (presumably) already purchased - do not tend
to make me want to buy a company's products. They just irritate me.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> By focusing narrowly on technical concerns you're excluding the
> specific business contexts in which the tool will be used and thus
> perhaps industry-specific warnings and tips that could be helpful to
> users.
>
> Whether that matters probably depends on how varied the product's uses
> are in practice.
>
> Also, a good technical writer should think like a marketer to the
> extent that the docs may be used as presales tools.

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References:
Re: Doc Design and Convention ( was TECHWR-L Digest, Vol 48, Issue 27): From: Janice Gelb
Re: Doc Design and Convention ( was TECHWR-L Digest, Vol 48, Issue 27): From: Keith Hood
Re: Doc Design and Convention ( was TECHWR-L Digest, Vol 48, Issue 27): From: Robert Lauriston

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