I spent several years as a policy specialist for the Dept. of Human Services in West Virginia, writing policy and procedural manuals and memoranda, but I never really thought of that as 'writing'. I thought of it as 'communication.' It was very careful, dry, detailed communication, with words and sentence structure chosen to attempt to eliminate any nuance, to preclude more than the one, intended interpretation. Writing papers in graduate school was very similar.

It kinda takes the fun out of it. I probably should edit much more carefully before I submit a post on the Mudcat, but I think it is good practice for me not to.

Janie