RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question

Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
From: "Damien Braniff" <dbraniff -at- amphion -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:25:47 +0100

I had to go for 'other' as there is no traditional product produced and, even after 18 months, it's still feels a bit strange! Up to my current job I've always worked somewhere where I access to the hardware/software. In my present job the final product is IP - there is no physical product, just a design. In some ways I'm using my editing/design skills more than my writing skills acting as an editor while building up my 'product' knowledge. Fortunately I work with a good bunch of engineers and most can write good English as well!

Where there IS a proper product I feel that it's essential to get hands-on experience. Even that doesn't always help create better manuals. One job I worked on was the user documentation for sonar system and what we ended up producing was reference manual - we were told that we could only tell them what it could do, not how to use it.

Damien Braniff
Technical Writer
Amphion Semiconductor Ltd.
50/51 Malone Road
BT9 5BS Belfast, Antrim
Northern Ireland

Tel: 028 9050 4000
Fax: 028 9050 4001
E-mail: dbraniff -at- amphion -dot- com
Web: www.amphion.com




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