Re: What to do?

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

"k k" <turnleftatnowhere -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:217915 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> >
> > 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?
>
What I'm saying--I've said it before--is that Technical Communication is an
engineering discipline.

Would you trust the information in an article about what to do if you run
out of avgas if it was written by someone who didn't have experience behind
a stick?

Chuck Martin



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