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Subject:Re: What's important From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 24 Jun 1997 08:07:13 -0800
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:37:16 EDT, David Tillyer, CUNY wrote:
>I've been thinking about my students at City College here in New York.
>They're all either engineers or computer science majors. They are not
>headed for technical writing careers, but they are taking a technical
>writing course.
>
>What would you say was the most important thing for technical people
>to know about writing clearly and accurately? Do you have any tips
>that you give your technical, non-writer, colleagues?
Yes: they should have passed Grade 12 English, preferably with at least
a B. IMHO, there's little point in worrying about technical stuff if
you don't even have a firm grasp of the base language.
"Their is also disks in the box, to."
You get the idea.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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