RE: Article about NASA technical writers?

Subject: RE: Article about NASA technical writers?
From: Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:19:54 +0000

I don't have the NASA article, but I don't find the story surprising. I work in medical devices, and here, too, all changes are signed off on before they're released.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 5:30 AM
To: Techwr-l
Subject: Article about NASA technical writers?

A colleague asks:

> About 15 years ago, I stumbled on a fascinating article about work
at
> NASA for technical writers. EVERYTHING had to be signed off before a > change was made. [...] > > Anyone know about this article? I do a Google search for it now and > then, but nothing comes up.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

I googled the archives for references to NASA tech writers using the following search terms:

nasa writer tech OR technical site:techwr-l.com/archives

... but came up dry.

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