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Subject:Re: A good title for a tw? From:"Tamminga, Ernie" <et -at- DSC -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:14:37 -0700
I do believe that if you're doing not only technical writing but also
"architecting" the forms, formats, methodologies and media in which
information is presented, not to mention designing the structures of the
cross-relationships between all the above, then "engineer" (preceded by
a modifier) is apropos as a title.
But then again I do, in fact, have SEVERAL gold teeth . . .
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Ernie Tamminga
Director, InfoEngineering
Digital Sound Corporation
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart Burnfield [SMTP:slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU]
>Sent: Monday, June 02, 1997 10:41 PM
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>Subject: Re: A good title for a tw?
>
>Becca wrote:
>> Information Engineer and Knowledge Engineer always sound to me like
>> using "Sanitation Enginner" for "janitor."
>
>Yes! The word 'engineer' applied to people who aren't engineers makes me
>think of a rat with a gold tooth.
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