RE: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technicalwriter?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

I'm with you on that 100%! I'm looking into the IEEE, and I don't know yet
if they're going down the same road. In general, I really like what I see
over there.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Starr [mailto:mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:13 PM
> To: Bonnie Granat; 'techwr-l List'
> Subject: Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition 
> for technicalwriter?
> 
> Actually, I'm with you on that... I'm firmly in the technical 
> writer camp myself. However, as Dylan once said, "you don't 
> need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." It 
> appears that we're going to have technical communicator 
> whether we want it or not. STC seems to be firmly in the 
> technical communicator camp and it appears that resistance is 
> futile. My objective at this point is to try to contribute to 
> a definition that minimizes the damage. The proposed 
> definition STC has been promoting says nothing about either 
> writer or writing and that galls me. You'll never catch me 
> describing myself as a technical writer unless I go to work 
> for a company that insists on printing it on my business 
> cards. And even then, if somebody asks me what I do I'll tell 
> them I'm a technical writer.
> 


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