Do we, as technical writers, tell the reader everything we know? Do we heck!
We most emphatically do not. And listing just the reasons why we do not would take a long time and a lot of words. That’s listing the reasons, not explaining any of them. But let’s talk about one of the reasons.
Readers are busy people. If they read the documentation at all, it’s usually because they were using the product to get something done, and hit a roadblock. They want to read just long enough to get unblocked.
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