RE: Breaking into the tech writing job market

Subject: RE: Breaking into the tech writing job market
From: "Mike Schmidt" <mschmidt -at- weathercentral -dot- tv>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:20:54 -0500

Well, if nothing else, I got a good conversation goin', eh?

Heh heh.

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On Behalf Of Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:19 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Breaking into the tech writing job market

One of my first jobs as an engineer was editing MIL docs written by
other engineers (someone realized early on that I wrote better than the
average engineer), and the underlying philosophy was "imagine that the
reader is looking at your manual in the dark with a pocket flashlight,
trying to repair a critical piece of equipment while incoming is
whistling over his head." Under such conditions, even a PhD would want
instructions that are fast and uncomplicated.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
> As for the comment that Mil. Spec. requires authors to write to a
> sixth grade level, the reason for this is more because of the writer's

> than the audience. Long ago, I wrote Mil. Specs. in an office
> populated by retired military personnel. Writing was not their
> passion and 20 years of the military taught them the power of
> adjectives to muddle the meaning, but sound important.

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