Re: He said...She said...He said...etc. (Was Re: What's A TW Got To DO To Get A Job Around Here?!)

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Plato" <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>
> In my book, the word "writer" means a person who composes written work.
Thus a
> technical writer is a person who composes technically oriented work.
>
> Its really quite simple -
>
> 1. If you structure a document, lay out the topics, and compose the text:
> you're a writer.
>
> 2. If you take another person's work and reformat it, edit it, improve the
> language, or apply styles to it: you're an editor.
>
> You can call yourself whatever you want - a tree for that matter. It
doesn't
> change reality.
>
> Yes, a good technical writer is a non-fiction writer. The two jobs are
> essentially the same.
>


If you take written material produced by nonwriters and rewrite that
material so that it is intelligible, you are not an editor -- you are a
writer.


Bonnie Granat
bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info
http://www.editors-writers.info




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