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Subject:Re: Novelists & other good writing From:Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY -at- CAMINS -dot- CAMOSUN -dot- BC -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 12 Apr 1993 23:09:32 -0800
> Date: 13 Apr 1993 05:40:09 +0000 (GMT) Thus spake Vignes Gerard M
<gmv0570 -at- UCS -dot- USL -dot- EDU>
VG> I suspect that you must have spent many hundreds of hours
VG> teaching yourself from tutorials and manuals in order to
VG> be able to help others, and that experience has given you
VG> the perspective to become a truly competent technical writer.
And I could well believe that a good (or should I say bad?) part of
of those tutorials and manuals were very poorly produced, so that a
lot of the learning was from their inadequacies.
