Subject:Re: Keep it on technical communications From:"Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:05:19 -0500
This reminds me....I have a technical writer friend, who just lost her job
for editing her bosses writing a little too well. Proving that there is a
time, a place, and certainly a manner in which to point out other peoples
errors. I learned that the hard way, when through a series of events my
first technical writer position involved editing a guy I used to
date...ouch! To save my butt, he became a bad typist....when he really was a
bad speller! :)
Melissa
From: Peter Sturgeon To: "Johnson, Tom" , techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Keep it on technical communications Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006
13:52:21 -0500 (EST)
Couple of quick points. I get careless, so all this applies to me, too.
1. The reason people CAN get side-tracked by errors in other people's posts
is that the posters are putting those errors in.
2. That technical writers post errors and display uncertainty about things
like "what's active voice" doesn't bode well for us if innocent bystanders
peruse these archives looking for knowledgeable people.
3. That we pick on the errors of fellow posters doesn't bode well, either.
Peter Sturgeon
--- "Johnson, Tom" wrote:
> Hey Gang, > > Lisa is not able to monitor the list as closely as she
would like for > a while so I'm jumping in, but I'm stopping short of
invoking the > 'ADMIN' in the subject line. We're straying here.
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