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> In respect to your position, you're possible/probably right. I, however,
> do not produce "crap" and therefore (perhaps narcissistically) live in no
> fear of losing customer (engineering) reliance on my documentation. ;)
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> [All in good fun and spirits, eh?]
Selling your product or your writing is not a function that you turn on
or off. It is an approach where you are creating documentation to
satisfy the reader's need for a particular version of information. If
you are producing documentation that "sells" your audience to use it,
then you're already thinking marketing. If you were sitting there
thinking "My information is so important that they are forced to use it
whether they like it or not.", then you aren't "selling" your audience.
Welcome to the basics of marcom. We welcome you even if you are kicking
and screaming while we do so. :-}
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good
poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few
reasonable words.", Goethe
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will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will
certainly misunderstand them.", John Ruskin
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