Re: Source for statistics on the technical writing field

[jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com]

A large proportion of the writing I have done throughout my career has 
been addressed to computer users who were being forced to be users. 
Their employers said, in effect, "You will use this computer system or 
you won't work here anymore."



Jim Shaeffer



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From: Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com>

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Sent: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 4:51 pm

Subject: RE: Source for statistics on the technical writing field



I don't agree. I think we use computers every day so we think everybody 
else

does. They affect most of us, for sure. But my point was not whether we 
decide

if the ATM is preferable to the live teller, or if should we do our 
taxes

online. My last job involved software for the printing industry. There 
is a lot

of resistance to changing from scheduling on a white board to 
scheduling using a

software package. Now I am writing for the medical industry, and 
finding that

some doctors can't even use a mouse. Good end-user documentation is 
still

needed, and it should be developed by good communicators who can write 
without

assuming their audience can use a simple UI.



I know a lot of people who don't own or use computers, cell phones, or 
even

cars.

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