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At 10:06 AM -0700 6/17/97, Elna Tymes wrote:
> ... The most charitable view is
>that STC is a group of wannabes and academicians who have formed a
>self-help group in the hope of improving their status. The notion that
>this group is a source of reliable judgments about what constitutes high
>quality professional writing is truly a sick joke, in my opinion.
You had me up until this paragraph. As a two and a half year member of
STC who does not label herself a technical writer and is against
certification, even I'm offended by this.
Beth Mazur
mazur -at- maya -dot- com
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