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Subject:Re: Is tech writing for me? From:"Martin Soderstrom" <scribbler1382 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 May 2002 14:51:20 -0400
> One of the things I really enjoyed about my degree was the small but
> significant number of lecturers who would explicitly encourage originality
> and reward proof that you hadn't just "read the book". One of the things I
> really disliked were the small but significant number of lecturers who
> clearly figured that since we were just there to get the degree, their job
> was to regurgitate the information and tell us how to expectorate it back
to
> them, with minimal timewasting on either side
While I'm personally a huge proponent of creativity, especially in writing,
the latter method is probably more useful for a career as a Tech Writer.
Sometimes all that creativity gets in the way when they want a project
scoped, planned, researched, written and delivered in the time it would take
to decide on a new, cool font or restructured information delivery where the
first letter of each chapter spells out ROSEBUD when compiled. :)
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