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Subject:Re: LOOKING FOR WRITING TIPS From:Mike Pope <mikep -at- ASYMETRIX -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 May 1994 14:57:00 PDT
> Shop floor workers are going to WRITE the procedures or
> provide input? I agree that it is very important to get the
> input of the end user, but if they write the procedures you
> will not end up with a very good product. Maybe I'm biased,
> but that's what technical writers are for. I haven't met
> many engineers that can properly string 2 sentences together
> and I can't imagine it would be any different with shop
> workers.
Would it also therefore be true to say that there aren't many technical
writers who could string two lines of code together? Careful there ...
Considerably more respectful of engineers in recent years,
