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Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THIS
Subject:Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THIS From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:56:07 -0400
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At the instigation of an executive here, I purchased a $495 tome (using Other People's Money) written by some well known and well connected management consultants. It's a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, and the executive who asked me to make the purchase is still on vacation; so I'm trying to plow through this tome before he gets back. And this is a follow-up to reading a couple of other consultant-written reports in the same general field that he dropped on my desk last week.
Okay, you and I know that most management consultants can't write their way out of a paper bag. In fact, if they had to limit themselves to sentences that would fit on a paper bag when written in grease pencil, their writing would improve.
So why haven't tech writers penetrated the consulting world and proven their value? Yes, I know there are firms that employ TWs. But it seems to me there are an awful lot that don't employ them, or don't employ enough of them, anyway.
I did my part: I wrote to the authors of the $495 rough draft, as a customer, and asked how much more they would have charged had they employed a competent editor to turn it into an actual book.
Now it's your turn to follow up and get the job ;-)
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