Re: re poets as tech writers and programmers

[Lori Olcott <lori_olcott -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

While I can't say anything about their poetry, I would think that poets
have a leg up on other cross-training tech writers.  Poets are more
accustomed to setting their words in a structured format and adhering to
additional rules beyond those of normal communications.  They'd also tend
to be more sensitive to the metric flow of the document.  Most people
"hear" the words as they read, so how a document "sounds" can affect how
well it is received.

That said, I can also imagine comma splices being the bane of an e e
cummings fan.

Tah,
Lori

> I'm willing to bet that similarly, most poets doing technical 
> writing are doing bad technical writing.  But then most poets 
> are doing bad poetry, and most technical writers-- no, I wouldn't
> dare say most but a lot of technical writers-- are doing bad
> technical writing.


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