Re: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files

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

Wow, nice save, Dan! It took me a second to grasp the importance of 
defending our turf against these loosely-focused insinuations that 
jargon and complexity are the key to tech writing. There's destructive 
reductionism lurking out there, in all of those alternative career paths 
where writing, even explanatory instructional writing, is featured.

In an age where everyone seem bent on making a blind stab at defining 
tech writing as a department and a skillset, it seems to me very 
patriotic to repel borders this way. It makes me want a tattoo. Crossed 
quills over a Visio diagram, with grid showing, whaddya think?


--Ned



Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
>
> As Gene already pointed out yesterday on TECHWR-L, this isn't technical
> writing. Not even close.
>
> Happy Friday,
>
> Dan
>
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>> Subject: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files
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