Re: The End Of Technical Writing?

Subject: Re: The End Of Technical Writing?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:04:44 -0700


I think he means me, though I hardly consider myself a
"mainstay" here. But on the off chance that it wasn't
immediately obvious, my post on that particular subject
(everybody posting about tools and not deeper subjects
because we had all mastered the deeper subjects) was
intended to be sarcasm...

Gene Kim-Eng


"Tony Markos" <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote...
>
> I was told by one of the mainstays on this listserv
> that the reason why there are so few End-User Task
> Analysis posts is because most of us TWs already have
> that issue licked, and that the REAL issues we face
> are how to use the tools. In other words, we mainly
> face production problems, not writing problems.
> Therefore, we should no longer have the title
> Technical Writer. Our title should be Technical
> Communications Production Specialist. And the name of
> this listserv needs to be changed from TECHWR-L to
> TECHCPS-L.



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