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Re: Culture, or What it means to be a Technical Writer
Subject:Re: Culture, or What it means to be a Technical Writer From:Johan Lont <jlont -at- BAAN -dot- NL> Date:Fri, 8 May 1998 16:14:42 +0200
Mark Baker wrote:
> A good user guide is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a functional
specification with > the engineering jargon translated into English.
Technical writing is translating from a technical type of document to a user
guide. That is much more than translating the jargon. 'Translation' is a
good metaphor for this activity.
