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Subject:Re: Tech Writers & Educational Material From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:32:01 -0700 (PDT)
Academia is geared toward a certain kind of exact
language that requires layers of vocabulary, abstract
theories, and references to other publications. They
have no idea how to present this in a way that's also
engaging, so the result is a hash. I'm not sure
business logic would apply, but clearly many
professors could do a lot to improve their
presentations; the best don't seem to have this
problem.
Reading through the manual for a certain help system,
again, and finding it worse than useless, I have to
say that the same is true of technical writers.
--- Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca> wrote:
> --- Grant Robertson <grantsr -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I see lots of videos where a professor just sat
> down
> > and spewed out
> > whatever came off the top of his head.
>
> There's some of that concern in this article's
> comments on the state of visual information design
> in
> academic presentation:
>
> Some Differences Between Business and Academia
>http://tinyurl.com/2eqwxq
>
> Milan
>http://altmilan.blogspot.com
>http://www.terminus1525.ca/studio/view/2758
>
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