Re: Liberal Arts Grads Can't "Grasp?" Give me a f&*#ing break.

[Hillary Jones <hillary -at- NICHIMEN -dot- COM>]

Someone wrote:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >A person whose training is geared too much toward liberal arts or a
> >technical field is not going to be a great technical writer.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Am I missing the reason this statement seems to be so controversial?
>

I just wanted to point out that the quote in question isn't the one
quoted above. It's this one:

> ". . . while pure liberal arts folks tend not to fully grasp what they
> are talking about."

To me this quote says, "Liberal arts people are likely to be unable to
understand technical issues. They will talk about these issues in
ignorance." I know that I'm not alone in this interpretation because of
the other messages that have been posted.

Does anybody else notice that generalizations tend to make people
defensive? If I say "X-type people are like this," I'm begging for 20 of
those X-type people to write in telling me that I don't know what I'm
talking about.

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