RE: what I recently heard

Subject: RE: what I recently heard
From: Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:38:16 -0500


"Everyone knows that consistency is important. But at STC's
46th Annual Conference last May in Cincinnati, a speaker
reportedly proclaimed, 'It is better to be consistently
wrong than to not be consistent.'

I was astonished. But many technical writers agreed,
saying that policing consistency is the most important
thing they do."

>From Don Bush's column The Friendly Editor in *Intercom*
for September/October 1999.

Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hower [mailto:hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com]

> i recently heard someone say the following:
>
> "I'd almost rather have it [the content of docs] be
> consistent and be wrong, than to have documents that aren't
> consistent."
>
> i didn't really know how to respond to this. I was kind of
> dumbfounded actually. What's a good way to respond to such a
> statement?



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