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Subject:SME or Expert? From:"Chas. Bosdet" <WLFTRIX -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 29 Mar 1995 05:52:24 -0500
m -dot- kenward -at- BBCNC -dot- ORG -dot- UK (Michael Kenward) writes:
> Can someone explain to me the difference between a Subject
> Matter Expert and an Expert?
About four syllables, Michael. *Thank you.* :) I thought no one would
ever ask.
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the "technical" part of "technical
communication" that Zinsser, Strunk and White, and all the rest go <whizzz!>
right out the window. Sorta like the raging debate over "technical writer"
versus "professional writer" versus "information specialist," and so on until
some of us have ventured one step beyond the outer limits and into the
Twilight Zone. And didn't notice.
But I digress, and now return control of your cathode ray tube to you. <g>
Chas.
(Feeling curmudgeonly this morning, and still
wearing his Flame-Guarde Jammies)
