RE: Is tech writing a profession? Are we professionals?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

If you are asking me whether I think of technical writing/editing
as a profession, my answer will be meaningless unless you tell me
what you mean by "profession."


Bonnie Granat | www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US 


> 
> I am curious to know how others in our field categorize 
> themselves.  The 
> Society for Technical Communication had a thread going on 
> this subject a few 
> years where one academic type said that we are most 
> emphatically not a 
> profession.  I wondered whether the dust had settled and the 
> trade (or 
> whatever) vs. profession designation/categorization had 
> finally been agreed 
> upon by most tech writers.
> 
> Does top management see us as professionals?  Are
programmer/analysts 
> professionals?
> 



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