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

["Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com>]

Managers, HR staff, government personnel, and others who might be in a
position to work with technical communicators.

IMHO, we can exclude five-year-olds from our target audience, although
brighter ones might understand anyway,  I suggest if we want to explain
our jobs to five-year-olds, we create a definition especially for them.

Cheers,

Sean


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> The definition of technical communicator needs to be clear to a 
> professional audience. It does not need to pass muster with 
> five-year-old children. My 2 cents, anyway.

Ok, so I challenge you to define "professional audience". Do keep in
mind where the definition is to be printed. ;-)
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