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RE: Technical writer survey: What should we really call ourselves?
Subject:RE: Technical writer survey: What should we really call ourselves? From:"Lippincott, Richard" <RLippincott -at- as-e -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:31:38 -0400
We can call ourselves whatever we want, but the -real- question that is
being asked here is "What do we want other people to call us?"
We may not be able to control that.
I suspect "Technical writer" is probably the most common term.
Rick Lippincott
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