RE: Status of the Technical Writer

[rebecca_hopkins -at- comcast -dot- net (Rebecca Hopkins)]

Yves JEAUROND wrote:
> If you look for books about technical writing before the 1950s, 
>   technical writing is mostly secretarial: neat typing, mailings,
> how to grease a typewriter. and so on. Akin to a scientist/technician pairing.
>   The scientist used a chalkboard, a tape recorder and scribbled notes;
>   his secretary, and the printer got the pubs going.
>    
>   Have things changed that much? 

Back in the 50's, my mother worked for a large scientific research firm in Boston. She wrote the company newsletter. She was a secretary.

She used to have lunch with a woman who had advance degrees in physics, wore a white coat and worked in the lab. She was also a secretary.

That's how things have changed.
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