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Subject:Technical Writer Backgrounds From:Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG> Date:Mon, 25 Dec 1995 12:42:01 +0100
Hello Sue Ellen,
* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von Sue Ellen Adkins an All am 23.12.95
SE> From: Sue Ellen Adkins <sea -at- netcom -dot- com>
SE> Characteristics I would add to those include
SE> curiosity - What happens if I do *THIS*?
for me the TYPICAL illness you need for this kind of job :-)
SE> self-confidence - The ability to not feel stupid asking
SE> questions that engineers consider dumb.
Quite often I reduce them to answer yes or no.
SE> strength - Writers work long hours when they receive
SE> specs
SE> late but still have to produce the manual
SE> on
SE> schedule.
From time to time I need that exercise :-)
SE> imagination - Even though I know this software package
SE> inside out,
SE> I have to imagine I'm a new user who
SE> doesn't know
SE> anything about it.
...or write a manual according to specs that cannot work in reality :-)
SE> diplomacy - We all know why this is needed!
which is sometimes the opposite of self-confidence. But I went to technical
writing because I wanted to work with people and still remain near technology.
I am an engineer by heart.
Greetings from Germany,
Alexander
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