Comments on: Podcast: “Anyone Can Write”: Changing Roles for Technical Communicators

By: Tony Chung

Tony Chung — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:09:05 +0000

I love reading the comments about our parents’ encouragement throughout the years (sarcasm intended). I lost count of the number of artistic children, myself included, have been told that “artists only get rich after they’re dead.”

Sadly, many of us followed that advice and entered more “lucrative” professions like writing.

By: Patty Blount

Patty Blount — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:02:20 +0000

You know, Ben makes an excellent point. “Liking to” do a job certainly makes a difference in the output of that job.

By: New York Guarantor

New York Guarantor — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:12:27 +0000

This is a great post and I realize why is it that many creative writers diversify. Usually maintaining blogs for companies is not all that enriching.

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By: Ben Hechter

Ben Hechter — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:53:22 +0000

Hi Tom et. al,

The discussion takes a different turn if we substitute ‘can’ with ‘likes to’. Apply it to engineers. Does it test true or false? Result: A big use case for technical writers.

BTW, thanks for a great blog.

Ben Hechter
STC Canada West Coast Contractors Team Lead

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:01:53 +0000

Wish I knew what that was like

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By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:12:50 +0000

Yeah, this happened to two of my colleagues. It’s always fun to see it. Kind of the like the girlfriend who breaks up with you but then later realizes she needs you again (or something like that).

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:02:33 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Haitham. In my experience, no one explicitly comes to me and says “hey, I can write too!” They just kind of quietly write the manual themselves in Word and don’t see anything wrong with it (even though it may be atrocious, with screenshots in every step, and tasks 32 steps long). They don’t understand how to recognize and evaluate good technical writing, so it’s almost a lost cause.