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Re: Are Tech Writers Valid anymore Re: ghost town -
Subject:Re: Are Tech Writers Valid anymore Re: ghost town - From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com> Date:Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:41:57 -0800
The "end user" of any document is the last person in the chain of people
who use that document. The "end users" of facility prep, installation and
service documents are all "end users" as well as the external customers,
and they often scream a lot louder than the last person who actually uses
the product if they don't get their docs.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com>wrote:
> With the usual caveat: Many tech writers spend little to none of their
> time writing end-user documentation. <raises hand>
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