[ARC5] R-10 in the receivers.

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

During my college days I worked at a test lab that had a Technical Publications department. The "TechPub" department also made the illustrations for the manuals. One of the challenges was to write a technical manual that can be understood by a user with a high school education.

Their major customer was the military but they also wrote manuals for a plastic model manufacturer. I forget which one.

Mike N2MS
 
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From: Bruce Long via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
To: Brian Clarke <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au>, ARC5 at mailman.qth.net, 'Mike Morrow' <kk5f at arrl.net>, don davis <dxguy at earthlink.net>
Sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:30:19 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [ARC5] R-10 in the receivers.
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In general in my opinion good tech writing is both difficult and unrewarding.  For that reason tech documentation seems to be generally poor and sometimes just plan wrong.  I've worked hard over my engineering career to develop acceptable technical writing skills with some success but I still find it difficult and something I only do when I have to.

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