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Re: The origins of task-oriented writing as a preference
Subject:Re: The origins of task-oriented writing as a preference From:Damien Braniff <dbraniff -at- iss-dsp -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:24:13 +0000
Quite some time ago I was producing documentation for a Navy sonar system. We
were told to produce a Reference Manual instead of a procedural User Manual as
they were of the opinion that we could only tell them what it was capable of
doing, not how they would use it!
