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Subject:RE: Writing structured content From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com, docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:09:55 -0700 (PDT)
Evidently the guy has issues. Anyways, it's true: The Info Mapping Web site says (or used to say) that structured writing is really all about analysis. Ok, maybe grammatically, I should not have used the quote marks if I was absolutely, positively, 100% sure that they used those exact words (actually, I think they did). I am a Tech Writer, but I often have a secretary to handle such itty-bitty details.
Richard Lewis
richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com wrote:
Ouch!!
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Subject: Re: Writing structured content
What is your supporting data for claiming Information Mapping is
"the most popular implementation of structured writing"?
Or are you merely claiming that the Information Mapping *website*
is the singular most popular implementation? Either way, I don't
buy it.
It should also be noted that the Information Mapping folks do not
like the term "structured writing" or "structured authoring". A Google
search of their domain confirms that they use those phrases a total
of less than 10 times, and none of those instances are in the "quote"
that you attribute to them. This has been pointed out on this list
before, although you may have been posting under your other
identity (Anthony Markos) in that particular case. It's pretty fishy
to attribute an unsubstantiated quote to someone else and then
ridicule it as "ga ga" because it doesn't endorse what you
consider to be the one true methodology for all forms of analysis.
>From: Richard Lewis
>To: Gordon McLean
>,techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Re: Writing structured content
>Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Gordon:
>
> As they used to (still do?) say on the Info Mapping Web Site (the most
>popular implementation of structured writing), structured writing is really
>all about analysis. Which I, as one who specializes in structured systems
>analysis (i.e., data flow diagrams) find quite amusing. Lets see:
>Structured writing is really all about analysis, but it is not based
>structured analysis. Geez - is this ga ga or what?
>
> Richard Lewis
>
>
>Gordon McLean wrote:
> As a step towards taking the 'single source' plunge, I'm looking to
>locate a
>training course on how to write for such a solution. I've seen these
>referred to as "structured writing" and "writing for single source" in the
>past, but my google-fu is failing me.
>
>Does anyone know of any such training courses being run in the UK?
>
>Basically looking to migrate the team from a document-centric writing view
>to a component-centric writing view, and whilst I can take a good stab at
>what that involves myself, I think we'd benefit from some formal training
>to
>help re-enforce some of the ideas.
>
>Anyone?
>
>Gordon McLean
>
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