RE: Acronyms

["Roy Jacobsen" <roy -dot- jacobsen -at- greatplains -dot- com>]

I think the point is why do we find it necessary to make the distinction
between a plain expert and a subject-matter expert? Can't we assume that
the expertise of the expert we're working with is in the appropriate
subject? If I'm working on a document on calibrating potrzebies, I'm
going to work with an expert potrzebie calibrator, not an expert
veeblefetzer designer.

When you boil it down, every expert is a subject-matter expert.  

Roy M. Jacobsen
Senior Editor
Great Plains
1701 38th Street Southwest
Fargo, ND 58103
USA

The man at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

>Answer: 
>SME stands for Subject Matter Expert to distinguish them from us, who
are
>the Technical Writing Experts. 
>I first encountered SME on a training project where some Experts were
>experts in educational theories and methods while other Experts (SMEs)
were
>experts in the Subject Matter being taught (and heaven help you if you
got
>them confused with one another). 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Develop HTML-Based Help with Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 ($100 STC Discount)
**New Dates!!** San Francisco (Apr 16-17), San Jose (Mar 29-30)
http://www.weisner.com/training/dreamweaver_help.htm or 800-646-9989.

IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15.  http://ieeepcs.org/2001/

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.