Re: Has anyone noticed...

["Michael West" <mike -dot- west -at- bigpond -dot- com>]

   >years and years ago, i had a manager who insisted

   > on calling the 2 tech writers "documentalists".

   >Made me crazier than I already was at the time.

   >jan

   

"Documentalist" has been around longer than most people on this list (as
have I), and has a respectable pedigree in engineering and research. But it
isn't the same as technical writer or communicator.

 

"Tech writer" is fine but has connotations of a nameless shape who sits in
the corner and does weird stuff. And, I think, deservedly so.

 

Me, I'm hiring technical communicators to help me build our corporate
knowledge base --  because what I expect from them is not "writing", but
communication.

--

MW

 

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