RE: Individual vs. Departmental Writer's Voice

["Douglas S. Bailey (AL)" <dbailey -at- commandalkon -dot- com>]

If I might be permitted to be a little hard-nosed, the answer for the school
uniforms issue works for this one as well:  if a person wants to be
creative, then they should do it on their own time.  They're being paid to
follow departmental standards and, more importantly, in this non-fiction
industry we call tech writing, individual creativity is low on the totem
pole.  And as someone else said, that's one reason why companies use
editors: to help ensure documentation has one uniform voice and appearance.

I'm a little surprised this is even an issue.

Doug


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