the writers go to for
information.
--Lynn
From: Bill Swallow techcommd...@gmail.com
To: Lynn Gold/Santa Clara/Contr/IBM@IBMUS
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: 10/07/2011 11:27 AM
Subject:Re: OT: Scary responsibility in job ad
That's why
Technical Writing Coach...that's what they should have mentioned.
From: Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2011 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Scary responsibility in job ad
More depressing
That's why so many of us get the interview question, How do you deal with
a difficult engineer?
From: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: 10/06/2011 11:03 AM
Subject:Re: OT: Scary responsibility
That's why so many of us get the interview question, How do you deal with a
difficult engineer?
I absolutely loathe that question. Not that it's difficult to answer,
but it just sets the wrong tone for the company asking it.
--
Bill Swallow
Twitter: @techcommdood
Blog:
The real danger, and I'm writing from experience, is that once the engineers
get the skills and tools to create documents the writers could be let go.
In that type of firm, the engineer's customer-facing documents would then be
reviewed for format and style by the in-house editor, whose main
Yeah, I've seen that job ad.
I've had a couple of jobs in the past where coaching engineers on writing was
one of the key responsibilities. In each of those jobs there was substantial
confusion over whether the technical writing task was owned by the writers or
by the engineers (and the
The post was:
A local company listed this as one of the responsibilities in a job ad for a
technical writer:
coach engineers to improve their writing skills
It makes me laugh and cringe in equal measures.
My reply is:
How often do you complain that engineers don't like to give you the
I'm seeing some interest in this kind of thing from our local Agile
Scrum Master. There aren't enough writers to go to all the scrums , so
(the thinking goes) maybe the engineers could create some content, which
the writers could edit.
On 2011-10-06 12:51, Writer wrote:
A local company listed
More depressing even that that are the contract posts where they say 'You write
the manuals and then our engineers will maintain them.'
--
Steve [an ex-engineer who's seen both sides of the fence]
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