Tech-writing

[Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>]

Hello Renee,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von "Cornelisen, Renee @ SLG"  an All am 27.07.95

"R> The digest of July 26, 1995 included a post regarding a job for
"R> a senior
"R> tech-writer at Novell, in Utah.  It required knowledge of C and
"R> the ability
"R> to read and understand source code.  Is that something
"R> tech-writers do?

shurely, but not everyone in our profession. I did several 10.000 lines of
 code by myself. The first 2000 lines are in a carton in my closet: 2000
 punched cards from my programming courses at university (back in 1977). I even
 know where the soldering iron gets hot.

Others do things on a dayly basis I can only dream about, like drawing
 diagrams.

Here in Germany, unemployed teachers, chemical engineers and so on get on
 courses that typically last 12 months. Most of these courses are payed by the
 public unemployment enshurance (the people even get money to live from). You
 cannot expect these people to do what I do after nearly seven years at
 university and my EE degree. But I cannot write operating instructions for a
 housewife.


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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