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Re: The STC and me

Subject: Re: The STC and me
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:31:25 +0000


John Fleming wrote:

I've always felt one of my strengths as a technical writer is that I do
have a technical background.

It definitely helps :->

What I can't understand is the number of technical writers who not only don't have one, but don't make any attempt to get one.

I still remember how shocked I was when a local STC bigwig told me that the way they wrote API documentation was to paste some comments from the code, then get a developer to write an example. I never told this person, but I lost all respect - and I resolved at least to try to be different.

Sadly, I've heard and seen just as bad many times.

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