RE: Geoff Lane's "arrogant PC bunch"

Subject: RE: Geoff Lane's "arrogant PC bunch"
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:03:04 -0400

Perhaps everyone on both sides of this debate should briefly lay aside
their personal and political agendas, and instead focus on a basic rule
of tech writing: Know your audience. Figure out what offends them and
what doesn't, and forget about what the rest of us think.

This rule applies to a lot more important things than thumbs, dogs, and
ponies. It applies to the use of screen captures, tables of
abbreviations, white space, numbered lists, CHM file security... Ya
know, technical writing?

This has been *such* a wretched thread.




























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References:
RE: Geoff Lane's "arrogant PC bunch": From: Cardimon,Craig
RE: Geoff Lane's "arrogant PC bunch": From: Jonathan West

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