[austechwriter] Re: basic question

Sure Deborah, but...

The term "technical report" can sound very grand, but most engineers want 
something succinct and easy to absorb, during their busy day, without 
receiving another mountain of paper that takes days to produce.

What you provide will depend on the size and composition of your intended 
audience and on how urgently the information is required.

If it is going to one SME sitting in the office next door (who happens to 
be the guy in the middle of hacking the GUI together that you are trying to 
revise) walk in their now with your printed screen shots and a pencil and 
actually talk to him or her about it.

If it isn't needed for a week and must go to two hundred people corporation 
wide, that's another matter.
(Publish it in Acrobat!)

All I am saying is horses for courses and that we can and have become far 
too dependent on computers for everything we do.

Simple tasks, needed urgently for limited and localized audiences, are best 
resolved with impromptu and pragmatic solutions.

Not everybody wants a Rolls Royce, if all they really need is a bicycle to 
ride down to the Milk Bar.

Regards,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas
Carnegie, Victoria, Australia.

At 11:20 22/5/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>But since the objective is to produce a technical report, the amount of =
>time spent printing screens, writing on them, cutting and pasting pieces =
>of text and images into pages and photocopying for nice presentation =
>would probably be just as long as doing it the electronic way?  ;)
>
>Plus, if the time spent on computers is as frequent as myself any chance =
>of legible penmanship has long disappeared.
>
>But then, if you get high on glue and enjoy the buzz from photocopier =
>flashes, why not give it a try ;)

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