Re: A dark take on Tech Writing...do you agree?

Subject: Re: A dark take on Tech Writing...do you agree?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:34:18 -0800

If the performance of the products you're documenting
cannot be measured in exact numbers, perhaps not.
I've encountered many products that convinced me
they sprouted from some sort of alien pod rather than
from an engineering process.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> I disagree with the idea that technical writing
> is an engineering field. Things related to
> engineering can be expressed in exact numbers,
> and that is definitely not true of technical writing.
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