Re: Tech writers are the new accountants

Subject: Re: Tech writers are the new accountants
From: cewinch -at- aep -dot- com
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:13:16 -0500

Presumably, journalists would be the same (not including themselves in
what they write) and to a lesser degree, magazine and ad writers. Seems to
me that'd be part of their professionalism, not just part of ours....

Just my .02 and all that. ;-)

Connie Winch
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Re: Tech writers are the new accountants






Tech writers are a distinct sub-species of writers in that we include
virtually nothing of our selves or our personalities in what we write.

Lin wrote:
> Might be an interesting survey question, especially if you added in
> other types of writers (journalists, magazine, ad, script writers,
> novelists, etc.) and then compared the results between those groups
> and tech writers and those groups (including tech writers) to the
> public at large...


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