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Subject:Re: Far more than (was Re: I need your ...) From:Bev Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:01:27 MST
Ian Macdonald writes:
> Maybe we should be called Document Engineers, or Information Product
> Specialists. Personally I like Technical Writer, but I do not want to be
> restricted to "writing instructions".
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No, no! Not again. Pleeezze.
(Nothing personal, Ian. It's just that we seem to have the "what
to call ourselves" discussion every few months, like clockwork.)
8-))
Bev Parks
Furlough 95 -- Day 3
bparks -at- huachuca-emh1 -dot- army -dot- mil