Re: Quote of the Day

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Depends on the business.  Some never do.  Good writers
don't stay at places like that, and eventually they end up with
people whose capabilities fit their attitude and their documents
get posted to the internet as examples of of bad writing.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>
> If I had to boil the following rant down to a simple question, it would be:  How long does it take for a business to treat 
> technical writing as a respected profession?  More specifically, how long does it take them to stop referring to us as "scribes"?

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