RE: Writing in the workplace (long)

[jwerchan@lima.ohio-state.edu (James E. Werchan)]

>James, does it help as you think your way through your Cs proposal (or
>does it help any of the rest of us) to get a chuckle from this?  I talked
>to Leigh last night, and she told me that the writing in her workplace is
>referred to as "deliverables."  
>
>Paula Gillespie
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hi paula,

well, yes it helps me, but i hope it does not bore/scare our wcenter friends
to look into my noggin while it's working.  

hm....'deliverables'....    It smacks of commodity, the economy.  Why not
call it that?  The deliverable written goods DO have value in a productive,
commercial enterprise.  And i guess, despite our protestations and
platitudes, student writing does not usually have that quality, at least not
when its intended reader does not really ACT upon the info therein, but
instead just puts it in a box at the end of the term.  Hell, of course
student writing is invisible when that's all that happens to it.  And in a
WAC context, when folks in other disciplines complain about what we should
do,  they just want writing that is easy to read in order to check its
factual accuracy; they want mirrors of their own lectures.  

Is it any wonder I'm now visualizing workers at drill presses cranking out
the same doohicky over and over, even when individual workers are dreaming
of new and better ways to make doohickies?  

damn. i'm getting bummed out again.

jw
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