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You wrote: "Technical communication, on the other hand, is a much larger
community. For example I teach VR training developers, game developers,
technical animators, and videographers in our program."
You're including game developers in the community of technical
communicators. That's where we disagree.
Happy Wednesday,
Dan
P.S.: I take no offense at your use of the terms "twisted" and
"back-handed." You should hear the terms my teenagers use!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hailey
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:03 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: STC is broken
>
> three points.
>
> Point 1: You said, I've never interviewed game developers,
> but I'm pretty sure that their resumes don't - and won't - be
> titled, "Technical Communicator." I responded with a
> description for how I use these technologies to produce
> technical communication and made the statement "my resume is
> titled 'Technical Communicator'."
>
> Point 2: You said "Flash isn't 'on the fringe.' I've used
> Flash for technical documentation, and so have plenty of
> other Whirlers." I did not say that Flash was on the fringe.
> Using game technology, however, for technical instruction is
> still uncommon in the profession -- it's on the fringe. Using
> Flash's ActionScript is just one of the tools that can be
> used for that purpose -- so is Basic, Java, C++, and
> JavaScript. I have said nothing that implies Flash or
> ActionScript or any of the other programming languages are on
> the fringe. It's not about the language, it's about its use.
>
> Point 3: You say, "That doesn't mean that everyone who uses
> Flash is creating technical documentation." Where in
> anything I said did I imply that using Flash made one a
> technical communicator? That also doesn't mean that everyone
> who uses Word is creating technical documentation. I guess I
> don't understand your logic here -- kinda' twisted I think. I
> said some people who use flash are technical communicators.
> You say some people who use flash are not technical
> communicators. Sounds like you are supporting my point in a
> back-handed sort of way.
>
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