Re: Findlay Student Messages: IMPORTANT!!

["Everman, Daniel" <evermad -at- TTC -dot- COM>]

     I forwarded the following message to the "offending" instructor, and
     thanked him for his time as well as his innovativeness in having his
     students subscribe to this list:


     I suspect there are a great many on this list who, like myself, just
     ignore the posts they don't care for.  We may even be the techwr-l
     "silent majority".

     The responses to my first post to this list were anything but pleasant,
     because I made what was, indeed, a dumb mistake in a response I made.
     What I learned was:  think before you write, even in a situation as
     informal as this.  I also learned that this list is made up of about
     the same number of snobs, friendly people, assholes, and helpful folks
     as I encounter in real life.

     I would hope those Findlay students don't take negative experiences
     they had here out into the engineering world with them, as I suspect
     many will.  But if they do, I hope they remember it was individuals,
     not a profession, that responded in a defensive and angry manner when
     confronted with situations that didn't suit.

     I also hope those students discover the joy and beauty of working with
     words in any format, including technical writing, which for me is a
     great job - I get paid to do what I love, communicate via the written
     word.  I would hate for anyone to be dissuaded from doing the same
     based on an unfortunate experience on this list, or from anyone in our
     profession.

     Thank you,

     Dan Everman
     evermad -at- ttc -dot- com