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Subject:Re: Artfully is dragging From:Jane Bergen <janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:26:53 +0000
Richard Dimock writes:
> Old Artfully Senior just got out of a 1:00 - 10:00 PM "walkthrough"
> meeting. My 250-page manual and I went through the wringer. Eight
> SMEs taking the book para by para, command by command, move this
> here, move that there, even doing system re-design on the spot.
and I snipped....
and then replied:
I'm jealous....I would give anything to have our engineers take this
kind of time with my manuals! Sheesh...I can hardly get them to look
at them, much less dissect them. Does anyone else have some ideas how
to solve the problem of getting someone to proofread drafts? I'm the
only tech writer for 9 engineers and they are pumping out programs
faster than I can write....they say they don't have time. Our products
are very complex and technical computer telephony programs.
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Jane Bergen, Technical Writer
janeb -at- answersoft -dot- com or janeb -at- airmail -dot- net
"The difference between the right word and the
almost right word is the difference between lightning
and the lightning bug" (Mark Twain)
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