Re: What's a "documentation specialist", as opposed to a writer?

["Janet Swisher" <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Suzette Leeming
<suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> In my current job, they were looking for a "Documentalist". What they really
> wanted/needed was someone with my skills. When I accepted the job, I
> insisted on the title being "Technical Writer" and gave them a presentation
> explaining the role of a technical writer, which was really what they
> needed. I joked about not wanted to have a title that had the word "mental"
> in it.

I would think a "Documentalist" would be someone who acquires
technical information for documentation through psychic abilities. And
doesn't that describe what a lot of us have to do? :-)


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