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Re: Information Engineer-Doing more than "just" writing
Subject:Re: Information Engineer-Doing more than "just" writing From:danm -at- DEV -dot- TIVOLI -dot- COM Date:Fri, 30 May 1997 13:37:27 -0500
Gang,
It's still technical writing, only now we are delivering our information through
different media (web pages, helps, etc vs paper only) and using newer tools
(SGML, tagging languages, Perl and CGI scripts, etc vs a word processor or a
typewriter). Technical writing is still at the heart of everything we do.
Dan Martillotti "Man, I ain't changed
Senior Technical Writer but I know I ain't the same."
danm -at- tivoli -dot- com - The Wallflowers
Texas A&M Class of '90
>
> Technical Communication, or Information Engineering (if you prefer),
> IMHO, encompases so much more that traditional writing. I am creating a
> website for my job. It's technical writing, web junk....and now,,,,I'm
> even learning Perl and CGI. I think of it as nothing more than part of
> what a technical communicator does. Heck, I look at it as we are
> superpeople who have the knowledge to do it all when it comes to the
> written word.
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