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Subject: re: most valuable course
From: "Carol Chung" <cychung55 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:08:26 -0800

For tech writing, an indexing course I took from Lori Lathrop (I believe this is the correct spelling), was invaluable. Otherwise, I believe in self-study for the help authoring tools.

To keep up with current topics, I have taken an Intro to JAVA course for programmers. It hasn't translated directly into salary increase, I'm sorry to report, but was a fun experience.

I would agree with other writers that the downside of a formal course is the cost. I believe in self-study (through text books or the web) when possible, but this requires stronger motivation.

Occasionally reading Microsoft tech articles or O'Reilly online articles gives me a good refresher on very clean and informative writing styles.

-hope that helps,

Carol Chung
www.tornadodevelopment.com

Lois Patterson wrote:

However, what courses in particular have list members taken that have proven
immediately useful in actually getting a particular job or contract, or
increasing your salary/hourly rate? Also, is there any obvious preference
for knowledge gained from a course as opposed to knowledge gained from
self-study?

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