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Subject:RE: What to do? From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:12:14 -0500
KK, there are some on this list who derive great satisfaction from declaring
that others on this list are not "real" technical writers. There have been
enough threads of this nature on TECHWR-L to weave a very, very big flag.
The terms "font fondler" and "tool monkey" have been flung around in this
regard, and a number of intense debates about certification have arisen as
well.
Don't take it personally. If you want, you might want to weave the
abovementioned flag and emblazon upon it: "My paycheck says, 'Technical
Writer!'"
Dan Goldstein
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From: k k
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:59 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: What to do?
>
> If you've not already been taught significantly and
> comprehensively in
> engineering disciplines, then how can you lay claim
> to the "technical" in
> "technical writer?"
>
This reads like you are saying people have to be
trained as engineers before they can be technical
writers. Wouldn't that be like saying that all medical
insurance policy writers have to be M.D.s, or that
anyone who writes for aviation magazines has to be
licensed pilot?
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