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Re: What Is The Main Task of a Technical Writer ???
Subject:Re: What Is The Main Task of a Technical Writer ??? From:Matthew Bin <mattbin -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:00:35 PST
>What is the main task of a technical writer? Systems analysts state
>that "98% of the required work in any project is identifying the tasks
>that the end users perform and how those tasks interrelate". Does this
>rule hold true for technical writing projects?
Oddly enough, I think that the main reason TWs are needed is that, when
it comes to documentation, non-TWs (even systems analysts) refuse to
follow the above rule. I find that when I rewrite a programmer's
documentation, it is a matter of organising the information according to
what the user has to do, rather than according to how the program was
built.
Matthew Bin
NeoDyne Consulting, Ltd.
Mississauga, ON
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