Re: What is "technical" writing? (Was: RE: What to do?)

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

"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> wrote in message
news:217930 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
> > Chuck Martin opined: <<What I'm saying--I've said it before--is that
> > Technical Communication is an engineering discipline.>>
> >
>
> Not to the technical communicator who is explaining technical matters to a
> nontechnical audience!
>
I'm not sure I see how this process--which is neither easy nor something
that can be done well by most untrained--means that the discipline is not an
engineering one.

Chuck Martin



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