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Subject:Re: I Started It, So I Finish It From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:28:30 PDT
Moshe writes:
>Robert wrote:
>>Moshe suggested that technical writing be DEFINED as having an
>>"invisible writer."
>I didn't. I did say that the writer becomes invisible, that the
>writing must be transparent. That doesn't define technical writing
>as the Invisible Writer Syndrome (hereafter "IWS").
Really? I thought that you posted the following:
>>In fact, I would go so far as to say that technical writing is writing
>>that is transparent by definition; the writer becomes invisible in
>>good technical documentation.
Have I erred?
-- Robert
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