Re: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

[Geoff Lane <geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk>]

On Thursday, August 7, 2008, Heidi Liebl-Slabinski wrote;

> I am having trouble with the poll question.  It's a "choose A or B" type
> question, but the answers are Yes/No/Maybe.  Am I overthinking this?
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It's not asking you to choose between them, it's asking whether you
think that tech writing is a fallback career, a sellout, both, or
neither.

If you think it's a fallback career, vote "Yes".
If you think it's a sellout, vote "Yes".
If you think it's neither a fallback career nor a sellout, vote "No"
If you're undecided, vote "Maybe"

I declined to vote because I suspect the author might have phrased it
carefully to evoke just this sort of "discussion" and, to me, it seems
a pointless question otherwise.

-- 
Geoff

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