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Subject:Re: Can someone learn to be detail-oriented? From:Ginger Moskowitz <ginger -at- AATECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:12:05 -0400
I think you have bigger problems than whether the new employee is
detail-oriented or not (see below). I can definitely sympathize with this
situation. So many companies see their tech writers as glorified typists,
and feel that anyone with a dictionary and a spell checker can be "trained"
to be a tech writer. Would they pull this with other departments? (say,
programmers...?)
"The new employee has limited experience as a tech
> writer in her current/transitional position with the company. She has said
> herself that assessing, conceptualizing, and synthesizing a manual from
> resource
> materials (big picture stuff) is beyond her current skill level. The
> non-tw job
> she had done successfully lost its funding. I was told at the outset that
> I
> would need to work with her and bring her up to an acceptable standard in
> both
> the detail work and the larger project work."
