Re: TECH. WRITING SURVEY - OPINIONS REQUESTED

[David Demyan <dbdemyan -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET>]

Boy, am I tired of seeing requests to our list asking us to bad-mouth
the profession. They must be from people who are pushing some
kind of _engineering_ solutions to providing technical documentation
or so-called _information engineering_ which I see as an attempt to
replace us since we do such a poor job.

Take it somewhere else; I won't bad-mouth the technical writing
profession.

David B. Demyan

jack w. bonney wrote:

> we are conducting research into the work undertaken by "technical
> writers", either as employees or under "freelance contractors".
>
> if you are involved in any way with documentation and manuals, both on
>
> paper or electronic, and as managers or readers as well  --  then we
> would
> appreciate receiving your knowledgeable comments and opinions on any
> or
> all of the following observations:

[snipped out all the crap about how bad documentation is today]

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