<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Or if the company absolutely feels that the engineers need to learn to communicate better, put the onus on them, not on the tech writers. Make it a part of the engineers' objectives, pay for courses, get the engineers to demonstrate that their skills have improved. If they fail, then no soup for them!</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Nadine<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Eichelberger, Mark" <Mark.Eichelberger@fiserv.com><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> framers <framers@lists.frameusers.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 6, 2011 1:17:41 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: Scary responsibility in job ad<br></font><br><div id="yiv295338044"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv295338044WordSection1"><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I don’t think this should ever be the responsibility of a tech writer, but it does indicate why they *<b>need</b>* a tech writer. I say let the engineers be engineers and let the tech writers be tech writers.</span></div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Writer<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October
06, 2011 12:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> framers<br><b>Subject:</b> OT: Scary responsibility in job ad</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">A local company listed this as one of the responsibilities in a job ad for a technical writer:</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">"coach engineers to improve their writing skills"</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv295338044MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">It makes me laugh and cringe in equal measures.</span></div></div><div><div
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