Re: "Know thy audience"; was: RE: What is "well Written"?

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Silly! Many professions are known as arts. Medical Arts, for example.

Chris Borokowski wrote:
> There's also an art in living well, but that does not
> necessarily make the life "art." Living well might
> include a 4 am visit to Taco Bell, but we probably do
> not see that as art.
>
> I think it's fair to describe technical writing as a
> profession, in that there is a specific skill which
> differentiates the best from the rest. I don't know if
> I want to be known as an "artist" for my day job. :)
>
> --- Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Many job descriptions I've seen have listed some
>> sort of information 
>> synthesis as a job duty, and while I find that
>> requirement to be 
>> hopelessly vague (do they mean like "Make something
>> up"?), I do count it 
>> as a clue pointing to conceptual creative work as an
>> element of our job 
>> description. We synthesize appropriate verbal models
>> of our target 
>> products, and there's art in that.
>>     
>
>
> User Interface design blog
> http://user-advocacy.blogspot.com/
> Code::Design::UI::Consulting
> http://www.dionysius.com/
>
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