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From Slashdot - Computer Analyst Wins Best Worst Writing Contest

Strange Thing About Writing (Score:4, Insightful)
by Rob Carr (780861) on Saturday July 30, @12:08PM (#13202345)
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Of all the engineers and scientists and doctors that I know, all find their writing skills to be far more important than their math skills. They all wind up writing documents to get funds and report findings; most barely use calculus in their jobs and only one uses numerical methods for solving partial differential equations — and he only uses that in his high power rocketry hobby.

A computer programmer I know wishes he’d skipped his Fortran and Cobol classes for a technical writing class, but that might be damning by faint praise.

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