Re: poets as tech writers and programmers

Subject: Re: poets as tech writers and programmers
From: Annie Wood <yossari53 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Jessica Weissman <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:11:30 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all -

I've been lurking here for the past few weeks - picking up tips and information and getting a feel for the group... I needed to add my two cents to this one. My background is in creative writing (short fiction/poetry), and it's always given me an advantage over my peers. I bring a different perspective to the documentation and it's always worked out very well for both me and my employers. I've also always been paid on par (and in a few cases higher than) my co-workers.

Annie

Jessica Weissman <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:
Richard Hugo, one of the best and most accessible of modern poets, was a
technical writer for Boeing.

I'm no Richard Hugo, but I am a lightly published poet, a technical
writer, and a former programmer. My pay was on a par with the pay of
other, more prosaically-trained technical writers and programmers.

- Jessica Weissman

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...much snipped here

I wouldn't hire a poet to write software for me, and I don't expect most
software developers to write good documentation. The availability of
automatic doc-extraction tools doesn't change that.

Just my opinion, of course.

-Andrew

P.S. Actually, I MIGHT hire a poet to write software. But I wouldn't
pay him much.


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poets as tech writers and programmers: From: Jessica Weissman

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