Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

["Mark L. Levinson" <mark_levinson -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> So I'll ask the group: What single course 
> proved to be most useful in your
> technical writing work? 

I sure wish I'd taken some of the courses that
other people have mentioned, but for me the most
useful course was "Programming Electronic Computers."

I was already working as a technical writer in
a software department, and I was being told, "Just
write what we say.  We understand it and the
readers will understand it.  You don't need to
understand it."

So I took "Programming Electronic Computers"
and I learned enough to talk back to the
programmers.  I got fired from the silly
just-write-what-we-say job and my career 
only got better for the next twenty years.

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