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Subject:Re: Getting started in tech writing From:"Hutchings, Christa" <cwhutchings -at- HOMEWIRELESS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:18:15 -0400
Richard Cook wrote:
>I have an engineering degree and was doing tech writing in an
>engineering documentation group for three years before I even thought
of
>using the term Technical Writer to refer to my occupation. Everybody
>else called themselves engineers, but I thought TW was more descriptive
>in social as well as professional situations.
Well, without opening the "what do we call ourselves" wars again, I have
often thought that an appropriate title for many of us is "documentation
engineer" - especially if we are designing docs from the ground up.
I've only heard of one company where this term was actually used,
however. I guess most companies are afraid that if your title is
"documentation engineer", they will have to pay you like an engineer.
Chris Welch-Hutchings
Senior Technical Writer
Home Wireless Networks, Inc. mailto:cwhutchings -at- homewireless -dot- com
