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Subject:RE: This too is technical communication From:"Condo, Candis" <ccondo -at- c-cor -dot- com> To:"Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:41:21 -0700
Perhaps we have beat this topic over the head enough now?
Candis Condo
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Of Mike Starr
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:38 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com; John Posada
Subject: Re: This too is technical communication
Importance: High
Come on... I have not ever said that I think of myself as an idiot or
that I
want SMEs to think of me that way. What I've said all along is that I
occasionally ask an SME to explain things to me at a level so simple
that
even an idiot could understand it or that I occasionally refer to myself
as
a "professional clueless idiot" when explaining to an outsider what I
do;
it's a simple way to give someone outside the profession some insight
into
how I need to understand things and make the sort of mistakes a total
newbie
might make with a product.
You keep resurrecting the approach that the writer thinks of
himself/herself
as an idiot or encourages SMEs to think of them that way and that's
nothing
at all like what I've been talking about. Please stop it.
This is the last time I'm going to correct you... I'm dropping out of
the
conversation.
Mike
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From: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>; "'Gene Kim-Eng'" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>;
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:41 PM
Subject: RE: This too is technical communication
>> interview, but it doesn't seem bad as personal state of mind when
>> approaching project.
>
> Any state of mind where you think of yourself as an idiot cannot be
> good.
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