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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Lauriston
>
> Any good docs manager should be able recognize the work of a good
> technical writer even when the quality of the samples has been
> compromised by real-world constraints such as a lack of time or money
> for copy-editing and proofreading, bad corporate style guides, and so
> on. What professional hasn't struggled to produce good work under such
> conditions?
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Michael
> West<WestM -at- ap -dot- aurecongroup -dot- com> wrote:
> > Instead of scratching one's head, one might consider
> whether deficiencies
> > in grammar, syntax, focus and clarity might (just possibly)
> exist in the
> > writing samples one supplies to prospective employers.
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I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and suggest that a large percentage of us are lone writers (even if - as I do - we work in companies that have several writers, but scattered around the country/world).
In that case, the person doing the hiring is not any kind of docs manager.
He or she is a product or project mangler, or an engineering manager.
And the concept of paying somebody to proof and copy-edit is not even part of their universe.
So, what you present is what you are, and that's the reasonable basis on which they'll decide if they want you.
- Kevin
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