Re: Rules, rules, rules (was Whaddya Know)

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com>]

Andrew Plato wrote:
 
> However, I think the division between editor and writer is an important
> one to make as part of the tech writing profession. Many people who bill
> themselves as technical writers are neither technical nor writers. They
> are merely editors who take content they barely understand from other
> people and "make it pretty". They are incapable of writing their own
> material because they lack the knowledge of the topic.
> 

As they say, there's two types of people: those who divide
everything into two categories, and those who don't.

I suspect that I'm in the second category. :-)

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