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Subject:How much do you have to know? From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Mar 1994 13:33:52 CST
Andreas Ramos writes:
|} Of course! I would say that the only criteria for being a techwriter is
|} being able to communicate to a non-user what a product can do.
|} I don't think it's necessary to understand programming, electronics, etc.
Got to be careful there. While you don't have to have a complete
understanding of an internal combustion engine to teach someone how
to drive, the person who writes the owner's manual for the car had
better know a bit more about what goes on under the hood than where
to put the oil...
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