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Subject:Re: Maybe We Need a New Job Title - Summary From:Dianne Blake <write-it -at- home -dot- com> To:Techwriter <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:15:51 -0700
"Higgins, Lisa" wrote:
There are quite a few people with the title 'technical writer' who would
be better described as 'information architect,' for example; but if
every tech writer started calling him or herself an 'information
architect,' the term would become almost completely meaningless.
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Lisa, you are right. There are technical writers and then there are
folks who wear many hats. I think that some employers forget that when
they write an ad that requires more than technical writing skills.
Employers need to be educated so that they realize there is definitely a
difference.
