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Subject:New Term for Tech Writers? From:"Nina L. Panzica" <panin -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 13 May 1998 13:39:34 -0400
At 12:11 AM 5/2/98 -0400, Warren Phillips wrote in a job posting:
>LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
>TECHNICAL WRITER / INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER (S)
>Needed Immediately
>...
>As an Information Developer you will be working with a team of
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I've just begun to notice in the last few weeks that the term "information
developer" is cropping up in a lot of technical writing job descriptions,
usually as an alternative description of a technical writer, but increasing
used alone. Because of this latter fact, I've had to add this term to the
list of search keywords I use when ferreting out contract work on the Web.
Is "information developer" a relatively new term or have I just not been
paying attention? <g> Anyone know anything about the origins of the term or
why it's being picked up so rapidly?
Regards,
Nina P.
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Nina Panzica
Masterpiece Media, Inc.
(404) 237-7889
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