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<Technical writing is excellent analytical work. You have to like details,
<however.
I don't agree that you have to _like_ details any more than the next guy...but
you do need to _care_ about them, realize how important they are in the big
picture, and temper this with the knowledge that the quality of your details
may have to be sacrificed to time constraints. Not accuracy and content
details, of course, but whether your graphics boxes are all _exactly_ the same
size, that kind of thing.
Ed Wood would not have been a good choice as a technical writing hire...
Cheers,
Gwen (ggall -at- ca -dot- oracle -dot- com)
Oracle MultiDimension
"The foreseeable future. A cliche, and a fuzzy one. How much of the
future is foreseeable? Ten minutes? Ten years? Any of it? By whom is it
foreseeable? Seers? Experts? Everybody?"
--Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"
