RE: Re: "Surviving the Dying Career of Technical Writing"

[Damien Braniff <damien -dot- braniff -at- asg -dot- com>]

The UK perspective - of course we were first! :-)

http://www.istc.org.uk/about-the-istc/history-of-the-istc/


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Subject: RE: Re: "Surviving the Dying Career of Technical Writing"


http://www.tcworld.info/e-magazine/technical-communication/article/the-evolution-of-technical-communication/

Gene Kim-Eng


 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Rick Lippincott <rjl6955 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

 > On 3/22/16, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
 >
 >
 > Hmm. Maybe. With all due respect, I think I'd like to see  > something...a published history, a study, some sort of  > documentation...that supports your contention. There were very very  > complicated systems well before WWII that required documentation.
 > Steamships go back to the mid 1800s, they reached the level of  > complexity you're talking about well before the -first- World War.
 >
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