RE: A suspected can of worms - knowing the future

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

This an other posts are going on the premise that with the right education,
you can be a good technical writer who wants to be a technical writer.

I disagree. You need a specific mindset. I guess this boils down to
technical writers are born, not made.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com


If you go to college to become an educated person, on the other hand, you
may not have the exact credentials some particular recruiter is looking for
in March of your senior year; but in the long run you will be better adapted
to economic and personal vicissitudes. 

Someone (Mark Baker, maybe?) was arguing a month or two ago that "any
educated person" should have the non-industry-specific skills that make
someone a good tech writer. For the minority of students who attend college
to become educated persons, that is true. For the majority who treat
universities as trade schools, alas, it is not true.

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