RE: What is More Important?

["Karen Murri" <kmurri -at- comcast -dot- net>]

 Yeegads! If that's your definition of well-written, you might as well go
with technically accurate, 'cause it certainly wouldn't be well-written by
my standards.

While I understand the argument for technical accuracy - and don't disagree
- I'm another that can't separate the two. If it's not well-written, you run
the risk that it's only technically accurate insofar as the audience can
understand it. If the audience interprets what you've written incorrectly
because of passive voice, misplaced modifiers, or vagueness, then it's not
really that accurate. 

-Karen 

-----Original Message-----
From: richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com
Subject: RE: What is More Important?

OK, fair enough. Well written = understandable English, the occasional
missing comma, active/passive voice used inconsistently, about what a
current college grad could write. 
Technically accurate = The manual could be used to, lets say, to build a
back yard storage shed from scratch w/o any additional instructions. How's
that.  :-) Rick

 
 

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