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Sorry to hear that your current employer doesn't treat the TW as a vital
part of the team. My own company still sees it as a rare skill, and from
what I've read on TECHWR-L, I'm not the only one.
Happy Thursday,
Dan
P.S.: Current leader for the Snickers bar is Dori Green...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Hood
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:13 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Nuts.
>
> ... Originally the job was well regarded, because
> it was seen as a kind of esoteric art. People
> whose minds could bridge between highly technical
> geekspeak and normal language were few, and the
> ability to make one kind of technology
> understandable to people in another discipline was
> (and actually still is) kind of rare.
> Technical writing was vital -- for a while...
> ... Now, a lot of business people and even technical
> managers tend to consider technical writing a
> commodity that you buy as needed, by the project.
> It's something you get done because the customers
> expect documentation. When technical writing is
> included in the project on such a basis, it is
> impossible for managers to think of the writers as
> equal team members...
>
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