Re: TC vs TW

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

One possible "solution" might be to bring in instructors who 
teach from actual industry experience, and who understand 
that new tools and methodologies don't constitute "new 
traditions." Tech writers have a steady stream of new tools 
available to them, such as word processing, desktop publishing, 
graphics, online help and multimedia, etc., and may employ
different methods to deliver information, just as engineers 
who used to work with T-squares and slide rules now use 
CAD systems and may produce data to input to CNC systems 
rather than rolled up manufacturing drawings, but as far as 
the industries that employ them in the real world are concerned, 
knowing how to effectively use these new tools and methodologies 
doesn't make them something other than writers and engineers,
just *better* writers and engineers.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>


What you describe sounds a lot like what (as you must be painfully
aware) has happened at the university and junior college, where many,
many classes are taught by underpaid, no-status, non-tenure track
"assistant professors". Is there a solution?



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