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Re: Structuring Documentation

Subject: Re: Structuring Documentation
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "Dick Margulis" <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:21:15 -0800

Based solely on what I've read in this thread, I would
say it sounds to me as if "structured writing" is a loose
synonym for "writing based on analysis" (not just for
analysis). However, in my particular branch of the
woods the term we use to describe all of the above is
"technical writing" (as opposed to the Dujardin-esque
stream of conciousness authoring that seems to make
up 90% of what I read on the Internet). And it doesn't bother me one bit if the non-pubs folk at my company think it's all some sort of black magic.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>

--- Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:

You're not happy with the notion that "structured
writing" is a
loose synonym for analysis.
Tony Markos responds:

If structured writing (formatting considerations
aside) is the same or nearly the same as analysis,
then the term serves no purpose other than to create
confusion. We are writers; we should be about
clarification - not adding to the IT worlds confusion.

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