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Quick attempt at sanity: can you point to anyone on this list who is a
proponent of that extreme school? Or even approaches that level? I don't
think any discussion is helped by setting up straw men (persons of
grain?).
Nobody has said that you should quit or starve rather than write in a new
field. I'd expect, however, that if I found myself writing in a new
technical area, I'd scramble toward SME status (perhaps never reaching
it, but striving nonetheless) as quickly as possible. That striving can
only improve my writing and how I serve the readers, and remaining a
technical novice while depending on SMEs only guarantees that I'll miss
important information.
Mike
On 02/27/2003 4:46 PM, kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com (kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com) wrote:
>What does a proponent of the "you need to be an expert before you write a
>single word" school do in that circumstance?
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