Journalism & Tech Writing

Subject: Journalism & Tech Writing
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:39:38 -0800

Beth Agnew writes:
>Having done both technical writing and journalism, I can't see the conflict.

At its best, technical writing is investigative reporting. At its worst,
it's writing obituaries.



--Wayne
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