Re: This too is technical communication

Subject: Re: This too is technical communication
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:39:35 -0700 (PDT)

> software product. It's a whole lot easier for me to tell an
> engineer to explain something to me the same way they'd
> explain it to a high-school dropout forklift driver (I sometimes
> say to explain things to me like they'd...

Mike...it seems you spend a whole lot of time explaining to the SME
what they shouldn't have a problem with your "clueless idiot"
position.

Wouldn't it be better to know the subject already at as high a level
as possible, then ask the SME to give you the advanced level of
knowledge?

If I used that forkliftdriver analogy, their first response would be
"Our users aren't forklift drivers...maybe you should write for our
users, who are network administrators."

John Posada
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