Re: "Surviving the Dying Career of Technical Writing"
The B-17 Flying Fortress flew for the first time a dozen years before that, and it had a full set of operation and maintenance manuals. You can buy a reprint of the pilot's manual online for under $15 US, for goodness sake. Who wrote these? Elves?
Sears & Roebuck used to sell, at least as far back as the 1920s, houses in kit form. Your deliverable was a truckload of components, all stamped with numbers, and a bound leather manual describing how to build the house. What job title would you give to the person who composed that manual? I think "Technical Writer" fits the bill.
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