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

Subject: Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technicalwriter?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:28:41 -0700

Generally speaking, anytime someone looking up a
definition for something finds that it contains terms
whose own definitions have to be looked up, it's a
bad thing. In the case of a occupational definition
whose purpose to inform people who are not now
knowledgable about the occupation, if people who
are actually in it now don't immediately recognize
and understand the terms, it's a *really bad thing.*

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
> I confess to being not buffalo'd by the term "knowledge product." And
> considering that technical writers are often responsible for
> "synthesizing" information (according to numerous job descriptions
> I've
> seen) I think it's a little bit disengenuous to claim it doesn't make
> any sense.

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Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technicalwriter?: From: Edwin Skau
Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technicalwriter?: From: Edwin Skau
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Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technicalwriter?: From: Edwin Skau
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