Re: The 'user' in User Manual

Subject: Re: The 'user' in User Manual
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>, "Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:50:24 -0800

Well, you got me on "diectic pronouns."

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>


If I am interviewing writers and a candidate cannot tell me what an imperative sentence is, what passive voice is, or why diectic pronouns require clear anticedents, they don't get hired. Period.

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