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RE: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files
Subject:RE: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files From:Beth Agnew <Beth -dot- Agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca> To:'John Posada' <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:41:07 -0400
Yeah, I get that. I just wonder why this is not "technical communication"
and if it's not, whose area of responsibility is it? Any old writer who
happens along?
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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:50 AM
To: Beth Agnew; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files
> If 1 and 4 are not technical writing, what are they? Who does those
> things, if not a technical writer trained to make the complex
> understandable?
> --Beth
Beth...I hate to say this, but we're not the only people in the world
who know how to write.
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