RE: Define technical communicator's job

["Tim Mantyla" <tim -dot- mantyla -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Stoner's definition:

Dudes who...uh, write...and maybe they sometimes draw, those manual things
that dudes read for...mmm, for stuff they use? Oh yeah, chicks too. And i
think they like, use computers and stuff to do it.


Tim Mantyla


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> From: Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
>
> Sean Brierley wrote:
> > So, is this a good standard definition of a technical 's job:
> >
> > "Develop and design instructional and informational tools needed to >
> assure safe, easy, proper and complete use of technical goods. Combines >
> multi-media knowledge and strong communication skills with technical
> > expertise to educate across the entire spectrum of users' abilities, >
> technical experience, and visual and auditory capabilities."
>
> What about services as opposed to goods?
>
> And why limit it to *technical* goods? Aren't the instructions for
> non-technical consumer products written my technical writers?
>
> And the use of "tools" to describe what we develop and design bothers me a
> bit. I think of our deliverable outputs as products rather than tools. Tools
> are what I use to produce the deliverable products.
>
> Just my first impressions...
>
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