Re: Definition of Tech Writer, was STC is broken

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I missed this part.  Are you saying that business writers
are making all the decisions that are documented in what
they write and there are no corporate executives
reviewing and signing off on them to ensure that what
they say accurately reflects the decisions the company's
executive management has made?  If that's true, then the
stockholders will be going directly for the writers when
they sue over ficuciary responsiblities and wow, business
writing is *way* higher risk indeed.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
> My understanding and assumption from experience was that technical
> documentation has a review process for accuracy and that the final 
> product
> of technical writing does not have a great financial risk associated 
> with
> it.  Business writing, once it is finalized and released, still has 
> the
> variable of acceptance and that variable has a great financial risk 
> that
> cannot be corrected with quality control.

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