I've told my SMEs regularly that I need to know what's going on "under the hood" even if I'm not going to put that level of detail in the documentation. The better I understand how something works, the easier it is for me to explain it.
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An SME says that Technical writers are not supposed to know everything about the functionality. What can be the reason or motive behind such a view?
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