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Re: Liberal Arts Grads Can't "Grasp?" Give me a f&*#ing break.
Subject:Re: Liberal Arts Grads Can't "Grasp?" Give me a f&*#ing break. From:Pat Gantt <pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:55:59 -0500
Time saving...
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > A person whose training is geared too much toward liberal arts or a
> > technical field is not going to be a great technical writer.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> I think you gave it away it here, why some managers go for the
> techy technical writer before the "artsy" technical writer. I think
> they're counting on you/me taking 5 hours to grasp something technical
> that a techy could grasp in 1 or 2.
CUTS BOTH WAYS...
Have you ever spent hours, days, weeks, months
(in my case years)
trying to prove to the techiest of techs to see
a commonsense "quacks like a duck" solution to
a technical problem?
I have remember I am married to Dilbert.
Pat Gantt
pagantt -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net
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