RE: RE: Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing

["GeneK" <gene -at- genek -dot- com>]

Actually, "engineers are lousy writers" was something I 
heard a lot of as a beginning engineer, though I soon
came to suspect that it was mostly because they didn't
like to and just didn't try very hard.  Back then, I was
often told what a rare skillset I had as an engineer
because I was a good writer.  These days, I am often told 
what a rare skillset I have as a writer because I have an
engineering background...

Gene Kim-Eng


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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Maggie Pierce Secara?wrote:


Not so much that they could or couldn't write, but
that they didn't *want* to do the writing. It took
time away from the fun stuff--whatever development
they were involved in--which is why they became
engineers in the first place.

And I suspect it's still true that no matter how well
some engineers or programmers or developers (or other
people who employ writers) write, most of them would
still rather someone else did it.


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