RE: tool nonsense (gearing up to be a tech writer)

[Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>]

Ah, but will abandoning "super secretary" mean being seen as a "junior 
designer" rather than as a senior "tech writer". To "help design the 
final product" seems to be a worthwhile goal, but as a job description 
it obscures our role and does not define the special benefits that we 
bring to a team. (Or are such special benefits a chimera?<vbg>)

Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)

-----Original Message-----
From: Christensen, Kent [mailto:lkchris -at- sandia -dot- gov]

<snip>
As professional tech writers I suggest we continue strongly with the notion
we are on the team to help design the final product.  <snip> Do the schools
ever
work with the engineering or computing departments to "design" products in
conjunction with tech writers as classroom or laboratory simulations?  Who
do all those researchers use?  And, I should think that something like STC
might put more effort into "customer education" and even improving the
schools than toward certification--that is, into promoting the profession by
better characterizing it as something more than super secretary.  <snip>


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