atw: Re: 52 Hours and You are a Technical Writer - Are They Serious?

Hi James, 

Actually, it seems about right to me:  it is a CS/software engineering 
department and they are not primarily teaching people how to be tech writers.  

I'm surprised they have a subject covering it at all.

Pete



-----Original message-----
From: James Hunt jameshunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:43:44 +1100
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: 52 Hours and You are a Technical Writer - Are They Serious?

> While looking for something completely different, I came across this:
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/courseware/cse1402/subjectinfo.html
> 
> It is interesting to see what other people think we need.
> 
> Some points -
> 
> The total course time for this subject/unit/whatever is only 52 hours. 
> This is quite a bit less training then you need to be, say, a competent 
> pastrycook. Can you really "construct quality printed and on-line 
> documentation..." on such  a slender foundation?
> 
> A course pre-requisite is: "Students are expected to be fluent and 
> literate in the English language..."
> 
> Apparently the only tool used is LaTeX. Now LaTeX is a wonderful 
> product, but I haven't for years and years been able to convince anyone 
> that it would be useful in the sort of technical/commercial stuff I do. 
> Word and FrameMaker - you know how it goes. <sigh />
> 
> Has anyone actually done this subject? Was it more useful than it looks?
> 
> James Hunt
> 
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