Re: Tech Writing Skills, College Degrees, Marketable Skills

[Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> >I believe the technical communication profession is
> organized into three =
> >main disciplines:
> 
> >1. Authoring (writing)
> >2. Editing=20
> >3. Desktop publishing
> 
> You forgot:
> 
> 4. Illustrating.

Scratch them all. There is one tech comm discipline,
and that is communicating clearly to an audience. You
can do it with words, with pictures, with sounds, by
editing something someone else did, by designing the
medium appropriately, by working with the product
designers and developers, whatever.

I am a technical communicator. I use all tools
available to me to get the right info to the right
people at the right time.

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Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)

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