RE: The Origins of Techwriting (WAS:Re: Techwr-1 polls)

[Abby Matsumoto <amatsumoto -at- signalsoftcorp -dot- com>]

> Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- bizbuyer -dot- com> wrote:
>
> >I dunno, Mike.  I've been doing this job since the late 70s, when I
was
> >hired as a "technical writer" and that's after my dad had been a tech

writer
> >and editor since the middle 50s when he moved us out to California to

take a
> >job called "tech writer."  I'd say the job had a name sometime before
the
> >early 90s, even if the spoeciality as a  degree program was in its
infancy.
>
Bruce Byfield replied:
> What you say is true, but I think that the branding of tech writing
> took place in the early 90s. That is, in addition to the degree
> programs, the profession started to be recognized about then in a
> way that it hadn't been before.

Then Patricia Jackson said:
>I'm with Maggie:  I've been "branded" a tech writer since the early
80's
>after embarking on a self-education by checking out and reading all the

>library books I could find on the subject.  I located such books in
card
>catalogs because they were branded by name or subject some iteration of

>"technical writing."
................

I've been a "tech writer" since the mid 80s, which was when I finished
my degree in technical communications with an emphasis in technical
writing. The program I went through has been around since the late
70s/early 80s. It was a rare area of study back then, but I still don't
see many tech writers with a tech comm degree. Is that what everyone
else finds?

Abby Matsumoto




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