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Not necessarily. A good writer can indeed write about anything, but sometimes finding the normal content structure of a particular type of guide takes research. For example, suppose an employer asks for a new Oracle reference guide - does the writer who hasn't written what might be a rather common reference guide make up an outline, or cry off doing it? Neither - they probably trundle down to the Border's bookstore to see what's normally included.
Therefore, a good writer will use a published outline needed, though it would be a poor, incapable, immoral, (this could go on!) writer who would copy from an unpublished person.
It takes a lot of product knowledge and fine work to create an original, detailed outline.
Linda Cast
More Senior Technical Writer
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A GOOD writer could do it without the outline and a poor writer
couln't do it with the outline
> reason, which somewhat become clear by reading the TOC/outline.
> Apart
> from that, the outline is so detailed, and good writer could write
> the
> books based on that. The publishers I want to propose it to, also
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