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A well-defined [Tech Writer] process might involve
contextual inquiry, storyboarding, relationship diagrams, and other
tools to build a model from which to document. A more common process
might involve extreme amounts of caffiene and sugar while flogging the
SMEs with rubber chickens.
Richard Lewis responds:
Those are both examples of specific behaviors that would help the gentleman who orginally asked for a definition of a techical writer. Both would enable him to screen candiates.
I have never heard that the chicken has to be rubber.
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