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Subject:Re: Academic careers vs. technical writing From:Donald Ray <dray -at- CELCORE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:41:21 -0500
All six of our technical writers have heavy technical backgrounds.
Sorry, but there ain't a liberal arts major anywhere in the group.
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>From: Scott Miller[SMTP:scott_miller -at- CCMAIL -dot- COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 1997 3:23 PM
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>Subject: Re: Academic careers vs. technical writing
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>>>>Mucho snippo...
>I have a related question--just how does a liberal arts person break into
>technical writing? <<<
>
>This is an odd question since almost all of the technical writers I know have
>a
>liberal arts background. I was an art major, and fell into writing via
>graphic
>arts, illustration, and paste-up work. Off the top of my head, other writers
>I've worked with have backgrounds in music, anthropology, English literature,
>art history, philosophy, religion, education, and political science.
>Technical
>writing seems to be where a lot of people land after they get their
>completely
>impractical liberal arts college degree and fall off a cliff, career-wise.
>It
>worked out just fine for me!
>
>- Scott Miller
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