Re: observation of tech writer status

["Bruce Wolf" <bwolf -at- scheidt-bachmann-usa -dot- com>]

"Tool monkeys" know all about the tools and little else.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant, Christopher" <CGrant -at- glhec -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: observation of tech writer status


SNIP

> technical writers ARE merely skilled typists.  They're concerned with
> formatting, cutting and pasting information from SMEs, and worrying about
> word choice.  Not that those things aren't important in their own right,
but
> they don't garner the respect of management, because their impact is
> relatively small in the final product. And it doesn't take a particularly
> high level of skill to master these things.

SNIP




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