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Becoming a Writer — Reflections on a Trip to Idaho
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 14 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_2087" align="alignright" width="400" caption="The Boredom Myth: Unlike what a tech comm professor taught me, tech writing is more than just formatting the layout of phone books."][/caption] Last week I drove ... Read more..