Just to throw my opinion on the fire as well, yeah, I'd say it's time to
make like a tree and get outa there. :)
It's the same old leftovers we've seen a zillion times before. The fact
that the developers are not writers >nor< native English speakers just adds
a comic twist to the incompetence of the people who made such a boneheaded
decision. I'm sure that there will be a certain amount of smugness about
how original they've been, but you may quote me by saying what I always say
whenever I hear this kind of rank stupidity coming from some Richard
Cranium type: "Aye, we've steered onto the rocks. I ~told~ you it was bad
luck to steer straight onto the rocks!"
Care to tell us the name of the company so we can short their stock? :)
Yours truly,
John Hedtke
Author/Consultant/Contract Writer
www.hedtke.com <-- website
Region 7 Director, STC
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At 11:47 AM 10/10/2007, mulholland4 wrote:
Hi,
I would like to see what the group thinks of this scenario for writing
documentation within a company?
1. Remove all existing tech writing staff from techpubs.
2. Replace these with software developers and specialists who know the
software inside out and get them to write all of the documentation. These
would now be known as Developer-techwriters. (It should be noted that none
of these people has English as a first language, despite this being the
primary market for the documentation.)
3. Hire editing staff to edit only the language and grammar of the documents
written by the software specialists.
The reasoning behind this scenario is; that this saves money as the
developers know the software, and it is really cheap to get university
students to come in and edit.
I won't make comments on this just now as i'm sure there are many of us who
just want to run screaming!
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