RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting

Subject: RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting
From: "Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:10:20 -0700


Phil,
I'll grant you that companies can probably do a much better job of
encouraging technical staff to capture their own information and leave
the technical writers out of it. But I just don't buy that tech writers
are unnecessary when it comes to software end users, particularly of
complex business software.

If your argument is really that there are bad tech writers fiddling
fonts and obsessing over processes and templates instead of writing,
then I'm not going to argue with you. Implementing JavaDoc so writers
can see code comments instead of asking developers questions isn't going
to solve that problem.

Lisa


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