RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position?

Subject: RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position?
From: Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: Dan Goldstein <dgoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:14:47 -0400


Dan Goldstein wrote:

> Even if they *weren't* in financial trouble, would STC help establish
> technical writers' legal rights? Maybe they just don't want to be that
> kind of professional association.

Perhaps there is a clue in the way the society named itself. It is the
Society for Technical Communications rather than the Society of
Technical Communicators. The name itself implies that the primary
focus is on the disciplines that comprise this type of communications
rather than the practitioners.

FR


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References:
RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position: From: Donald H. White
Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position?: From: Geoff Hart
RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position?: From: Dan Goldstein

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