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Subject:Re: State of the Technical Writing Field From:phil stokes <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> To:"Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> Date:Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:47:02 +0800
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> employer's demand for prior knowledge of tools
> can be uncompromising even if a twelve-year-old
> could learn the tool in half a week.
>
Hear that.
"Knowledge of MSWord required"
How is it different from "must have at least one hand, one eye and half a
brain"?
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