Re: Invented Words

Subject: Re: Invented Words
From: Jo Baer <jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:39:00 -0500

That was actually one title proposed for "whatever it is you do" when I created
the position that finally came to be known as a technical writer in my company.
I think we finally settled on Documentation Specialist. Nobody had the slightest
idea what I should do or be called, but as long as I wanted to write about stuff
and they didn't have to, they were satisfied. An auspicious beginning for a tech
writing career, no?

Jo

"Ward, Curtis (DST-CLT)" wrote:

> <<<<<<<<<<<<I think my all time favourite was an invented job title. My
> fellow writers
> and I were ..................... documentalists
>
> and we never even got to appear with Kreskin on the Carson show.>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Documentalists? Sounds like an philosophical movement. Or a new school of
> literary criticism. Literature as technical documentation. Scary. If it
> weren't Friday, the concept would probably send me over the edge.


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