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Re: Now is the winter of our dis-CONTENT (was Content vs. Style)

Subject: Re: Now is the winter of our dis-CONTENT (was Content vs. Style)
From: Anthony Davey <ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:38:49 +0000


Robin,

I have to agree with you that both style and content are important. As a TW that specializes in producing marketing and editorial material for technical products my style is part of the content. If my style isn't part of the content than it becomes reduced to the efforts of 'some bloke in the office, who knows something about the product, trying to document it'.

If style wasn't an important part of the content then we'd all be out of work because anybody could do it!

Best regards,
Ant (ant -at- ant-davey -dot- com)


R. Johnson wrote:

I never wanted to join this conversation because 1) the
content vs. style conundrum is a non-issue-they are *both*
important in terms of communicating information (knowing
WHAT to communicate as well as HOW best to convey that
information is what differentiates technical writers from
other types of writers, IMO); 2) I was enjoying my status
as a semi-lurker.







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