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- From: james@raveup.b24a.ingr.com (Teddie James)
- Subject: Re: "Wow! You're a writer?"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.190254.7321@infonode.ingr.com>
- Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <57680018@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <BsuMty.JC4@well.sf.ca.us> <s0067284.713623707@ursa> <BsvK6y.341@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:02:54 GMT
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- In article <BsvK6y.341@unx.sas.com>, saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
- |>
- |> On the other hand, when I tell people I'm a writer, and elaborate by
- |> explaining that I write manuals for computer software, nobody ever tells
- |> me they liked what I've written. In fact, very few people have ever read
- |> what I've written, and they still get mad at *me* for bad computer
- |> manuals that OTHER people have written. Many of them begin to berate me,
- |> though I never let that go very far before responding in my own defense.
- |>
- |> Any other technical writers out there suffer through THAT scenario
- |> before?
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- No. Some users and others have told me that my documentation is very
- good. Nobody has ever blamed me for someone else's poor documentation.
- My boss/editor is very good about letting me know what she likes (and
- doesn't like) about my work.
-
- When I tell others what I do, they ask me, "What's a technical writer?"
- Most people believe that the programmers write the manuals.
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- TEDDIE JAMES
- Intergraph Corporation
- Huntsville, AL
- 205-730-8065
- james@raveup.b24a.ingr.com
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