RE: A technique to get on development's good side

["Damien Braniff" <Damien -dot- Braniff -at- asg -dot- com>]

As to the divide between TWers and engineers was it always there?

I know here in the UK TWers were, traditionally,
engineers/programmers/etc who could write and migrated to TWing. While
some were 'bad' engineers most were competent and the divide didn't
exist (or was much les pronounced). There was also a decided lack of TW
qualifications so there were few going into the profession directly from
university - they worked in industry and migrated. Almost everywhere
I've worked so far the tech writers have been classed as part of
development. In the largest place I worked, where there was a tech pubs
department, ALL the writers were from a technical background in various
engineering disciplines.

There are TC course here in the UK now and a lot more in the US -
perhaps it because it's seen as being 'academic' without the technical
grounding and they're only accepted once that grounding has been proved
by doing the job?

Damien Braniff | Technical Writer
damienb -at- asg -dot- com 

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