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Subject:Re: Where do you look for books on tech writing? From:Jim Grey <jwg -at- ACD4 -dot- ACD -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 12 May 1994 09:32:55 -0500
Anatole Wilson runs all over the bookstore:
>So the question is: when you go into a bookstore, what section do you check
>first for books on technical writing? Where would you prefer to look for
>them?
Psssshhhhhhhh. *What* technical writing books? Out here among the corn,
nobody knows what technical writing IS. So Waldenbooks doesn't carry anything.
Nor does our one independent bookshop.
Heck, when I tell people what I do, I always have to explain (after the
usual puzzled look): "Look, you got instructions with the last TV you
bought, right? Well, I write that sort of thing. Except I do it for
computer software."
Any tech writing books I have, I've ordered (and taken my chances).
jim grey
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