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Subject:Re: What Are Writing Skills? From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:39:03 -0600
Tony,
As usual, you seem to have ignored the greater part of my post.
However, throughout your preachments regarding dataflow diagrams--in
addition to becoming incredibly *tedious*--you have failed to
structure your arguments in a clear and convincing manner.
This indicates one of two conditions may exist:
You lack the talent to analyze how best to use *this* medium to
communicate effecitvely; or
You have not applied the same sort of rigorous analysis which you
claim to use in other venues.
As for "saying what it is rather than what it is not"...it appears you
concede that you have thus far failed in doing so effectively in this
forum. That is a considerable concession.
I gave you an exposition of who you *might* have structured your
argument here for more effect--which, lamentably, you seem to have
ignored.
As for your "not getting it" when others claim that information should
be properly structured, it appears consistent with your obvious
inability to do so with your own extended arguments on the subject.
Thus, by example, you serve as a sort of claim of "q.e.d." as in "I
cannot do it; since I am a noted analyst, it must either not exist or
be incapable of doing."
Sorry, I am not buying that argument beyond the "I cannot do it" part.
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