With All This Fuss About Tools, Three Best Practice Attitudes: EServer Technical Communication Library

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With All This Fuss About Tools, Three Best Practice Attitudes
http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/08/13/with-all-this-fuss-about-tools-three-best-practice-attitudes/

Johnson, Tom H.
I'd Rather Be Writing
2008

Abstract:
Although tools seem to play a significant role in technical authoring, some people disagree. Embrace tool learning. Recognize that the 'best tool' is relative. Expose knowledge gaps.

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Anonymous	Tools are More Important than Tom Johnson or His Friends Think Tools are more important than Tom Johnson or his friends think they are. Their opinion that technical writers' strong feelings about their tools is 'unprofessional' is just sloppy reasoning, derived from stereotypes about people who worry about tech writers having an uncritical love of one or more tools. But in my experience, uncritical and undertheorized use of tools is far more common than people fetishising any. It’s a spurious concern, IMHO.
	Read Hughes, Instead This is a bad article. Try Michael Hughes’ response, instead.

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