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I have a few questions about putting together an appropriate newbie
portfolio. I'm basically just
starting, though I have created a couple of manuals here and there, and have
been doing a LOT of writing as an English Instructor in grad school (lots of
course materials and research) and, briefly, as a web site and internet
newsletter content writer. Here are my questions:
-How should I best include the copy I wrote for a web site? Just put
together a neatly-formatted version and point the reader to the site with a
URL, or print pages from the site? Any
instinct on this one?
-Also, would it be prudent to include some of the writing I did for the
Internet newsletters, probably the stuff of a more technical nature? Or just
the procedural stuff I wrote for them?
-I have a chapter from the manual I wrote for a bank in 1998, but not in
electronic format. Would it be totally dishonest and ill advised for me to
re-write it in FrameMaker, for example, to show I can use it?
- I'm also planning to include a quick help file I'll create in RoboHELP. I
got the "For Dummies" of both these programs, which come with samples of the
software.
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