RE: Losing my profession?

[Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>]

"Dia Blankenship" <dia -at- teknolutionary -dot- com> wrote:

(*snip*)

> My theory on doing a fabulous job as a tech writer (among other 
things):  at
> my most competent, I am invisible.  That is to say, *bad* tech 
writing is
> pretty much the only variety that gets noticed.  You don't have to 
like it.
> You just have to find a way to accept it.  Or find something else to 
do.

Nothing improves the quality of the work you do more than fixing a 
universally despised manual -- written by someone else, of course. At 
one point, the manual was discussing a rather complex setup window 
with all sorts of buttons and fields.  To explain all of these, the 
tech writer assured his audience that each of these were 
"self-explanatory."

Took me two days to properly document that window .....
 
> Just my 2 cents...

> -D

--gdw

"Better a warm, paranoid person than a cold, well mannered corpse."
--Art Bell Listener


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