RE: Rhetorical question about Information Design

Subject: RE: Rhetorical question about Information Design
From: "Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>
To: Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:41:51 +0000

"Strict technical writing" is when you get wacked across the knuckles with a ruler for every error that appears in anything you publish.

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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 10:42 AM
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Subject: RE: Rhetorical question about Information Design

Let's see: Organization, presentation, digging out information, judging information's usefulness, and creating information from scratch. That could easily be a senior technical writer's job description; I do all that. (Yes, my job title is "Quality Assurance Manager," but that's another thread.)

I have no clue what "strict" technical writing is.


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References:
Rhetorical question about Information Design: From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: Rhetorical question about Information Design: From: Gene Kim-Eng
RE: Rhetorical question about Information Design: From: Dan Goldstein

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