Re: assessing a lone-writer gig

["Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

Interesting side trip here that reminds me about what happens when one
creates content that is later made into shared topics and edited without
one's input, sigh. Not a pretty picture.

On 6/27/07, Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Neither, do I whant to do that.   Gammer is importnat to professionals!
>
> Richard Lewis
>
> Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:
> > I don't ever want to be in a position where a non-writer or
> > anyone other than the documentation department (me) sends
> > out documents that are full of grammatical, formatting,
> > and spelling errors.
>
> To put it another way, at the end of every gig I want to be able to take
> away work samples that I'd be pleased to show at an interview. I don't
> want to be hedging or having to explain why I'm responsible for the
> lucid overview in chapter 2 but not responsible for the horrible
> blunders in chapters 3, 4 and 5. Even if true it just sounds bad.
>
> Stuart
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