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Subject:Re: What does a tech writer do? (fwd) From:Betsy Perry <betsyp -at- VNET -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:10:42 -0400
Larry Weber commented,
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Mostly, we decipher and spruce up information generated by programmers
and marketing people.
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I think this varies widely by company. In my 15-year career, I have
very rarely had written source material from either the engineers or
the marketing people. Most of the time, the "information" I had was
the source code and, if I was very lucky, the running product. I can
think of a a few occasions on which I rewrote existing marketing or
programming documents, but even then the bulk of the final document
was original work. (Yes, I rewrote other writers' work when
revising existing documents, but that's a different issue.)
I'm curious: how do the rest of you work?
Betsy Hanes Perry
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