RE: Hostility towards STC

["Schermerhorn, Robert" <roberts -at- chipdata -dot- com>]

>>I disagree. STC could not have been any 
>>more than it is unless technical
>>communication were in fact a profession.

>That's certainly your right. You just have no idea how much I disagree.

>John Posada


It's uncannily difficult to clearly define a professional technical
writer (something to do with horsepower in the conceptual engine,
life-long student of process, fanaticism for appropriate message
presentation, and vivid empathy). But if you work it the other way and
define what is a profession and what makes any person professional, you
should find many technical writers nodding from experience at each
point. 

Here's another stab at defining the profession -- Technical writers are
concept mechanics. (Once we clearly define "concept", we're home free
;-)

Keepin' the sunny side up and my fingers outta' the gears,

Robert Schermerhorn

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