RE: The End Of Technical Writing

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> Tony Markos responds:
> 
> The major part of the required work in any systems-related 
> tech comm project is coming up with a comprehensive 
> understanding of the essential end-user tasks and how all 
> those tasks interrelate. 

That's what "technical writers" *do* ....


There are many interesting facets of 
> task analysis! 
> 

They're usually unique to the specific project.


> Actually, once you have experienced the sense of 
> accomplishment that results from a successful task analysis, 
> the old way of doing tech comm is no longer satisfying!
>  
> 

What "old way"? Unless you analyze the tasks, how can you teach anyone how
to perform them?


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com 



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