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Subject:Re: Degree or No Degree: Who Cares? From:"Nagai, Paul" <pnagai -at- VISA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:09:06 -0700
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>Do we have any psychology experts on this list who would care to
>explain why we are having all this bickering about college degrees or
>a lack of one? If so, please enlighten us.
A previous note in this thread commented that the most required skill of
a technical communicator is The Art of Listening [I'm paraphrasing a bit
here ... sue me.]
There appears to be a shortage of this skill.
It would explain a lot more than this list.
For your enjoyment, here is my amended list of techwr-l boomarang
topics:
Dr. Suess as Technical Writer
PDF or HTML
Resume Typoz
This list flames too much
One space or two
Certification
His/her/their, ...
What do you call #?
Frame vs. [Any Other DTP Application]
"execute", "kill", etc. = violence
abort? retry fail?
To Degree or Not to Degree?
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