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Re: Post on Technical Writing vs. Technical Communication
Subject:Re: Post on Technical Writing vs. Technical Communication From:Kaye Adkins <kadkinsphd -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"philstokes03 -at- gmail -dot- com" <philstokes03 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:38:48 -0500
This made my day!
Kaye Adkins
On Thursday, April 5, 2012, philstokes03 -at- gmail -dot- com wrote:
> Aside from diagrams and photographs... :)
> Sent from my Nokia phone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Hood
> Sent: 06/04/2012, 07:20
> To: Gene Kim-Eng
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com <javascript:;>
> Subject: Re: Post on Technical Writing vs. Technical Communication
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> That's another reason we shouldn't be considered real engineers. We don't
> get to blow s**t up.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com <javascript:;>>
> To: Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com <javascript:;>>
> Cc: Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com <javascript:;>>; "
> techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com <javascript:;>" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com<javascript:;>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Post on Technical Writing vs. Technical Communication
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> And you think that engineers have formulas that provide repeatable, valid
> results for estimating the progress of design projects? Costs? Whether
> the darned thing is going to work the first time?
>
>
> Submarine Launched Trident PEM-1 Launch Failure<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-3fjg4dYY>
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> Gene Kim-Eng
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>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
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> When we finally come up with a formula that provides repeatable valid
> results for estimating minutes per page to create a help system, then we
> can call ourselves engineers.
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