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Subject:Re: New terms for the TW industry From:Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:35:33 -0400
On 10/18/00 5:55 PM, EXT-Hornoi-Centerwall, Theodore
(Theodore -dot- Hornoi-Centerwall -at- PSS -dot- Boeing -dot- com) wrote:
>Here are two new terms that are being used to describe the industry we
>technical writers work in:
>
>Information Design Services
>Emergent Technology
Whatever makes you happy; it's really kind of unimportant in the scheme
of things *what* we're called. I've been called a documentation
specialist, a principal documentation writer, an online help developer,
and, most embarrassingly, an "information engineer," but through it all,
I've always been as good a technical writer as I could manage.
The name doesn't matter, as long as you're doing what you like to do, and
making a darn good living at it.
