RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting

["Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Well, Michael, I think you might be a wee bit hard on the poor folks
trying to fit information into the structure. Writing is hard. And
that's my ultimate point. I don't think those of us who're good at it
are going to find ourselves unemployed anytime soon. Plus there are all
those folks who just flat-out say to me "your job would bore me out of
my mind." I tell them, quite truthfully in many cases, that there's
would bore me too, so it's a good thing there  are so many different
kinds of jobs!

Lisa 

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Michael West
<snip>I used to think that I could write bullet-proof templates to
extract the required bits of information in the right pigeon-holes, but
after many attempts I have had to admit that while a few people will
follow directions and produce usable content, the rest of them will
still find a way to cram everything including the kitchen sink into a
single mislabelled, mispunctuated, stream-of-consciousness, rambling
pseudoparagraph.

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Michael West
Melbourne, Australia



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