"Know thy audience"; was: RE: What is "well Written"?

[Chris Borokowski]

There's also an art in living well, but that does not
necessarily make the life "art." Living well might
include a 4 am visit to Taco Bell, but we probably do
not see that as art.

I think it's fair to describe technical writing as a
profession, in that there is a specific skill which
differentiates the best from the rest. I don't know if
I want to be known as an "artist" for my day job. :)

--- Ned Bedinger <doc at edwordsmith.com> wrote:

> Many job descriptions I've seen have listed some
> sort of information 
> synthesis as a job duty, and while I find that
> requirement to be 
> hopelessly vague (do they mean like "Make something
> up"?), I do count it 
> as a clue pointing to conceptual creative work as an
> element of our job 
> description. We synthesize appropriate verbal models
> of our target 
> products, and there's art in that.


User Interface design blog
http://user-advocacy.blogspot.com/
Code::Design::UI::Consulting
http://www.dionysius.com/


       
____________________________________________________________________________________Need a vacation? Get great deals
to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.
http://travel.yahoo.com/