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Subject:Re: If you are not a tech writer... From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 May 1993 08:22:29 PDT
Peter Montgomery said:
> As I understand it ( and I don't profess to speak for 'you'), a professional
> writer is one who professes to know how to write, whetjer one gets paid
> for that writing or not.
I think this is an unusual definition of a professional *anything*--look
at basketball players, drivers, etc.
