RE: Definition of Tech Writer, was STC is broken

Subject: RE: Definition of Tech Writer, was STC is broken
From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:17:34 -0400

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

> My first thought when I hear of technical
> writers trying to get their titles changed to
> "technical communicator," "information
> developer," etc., is that it must be a terrible
> thing to be working in a place where being
> called a writer causes one to develop such
> an inferiority complex.
>

My response:


I LIKE having the title "Technical Writer." That's what I do. I write
with words and pictures.


You're going to stir up a firestorm with this, but I'm on your side.
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