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Subject:Re: Challenges facing tech writers From:John Gilger <jgilger_it -at- NV -dot- DOE -dot- GOV> Date:Fri, 8 Jan 1999 07:42:33 -0800
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On the second point, STC counts around 17,000 working
technical
communicators among its members. So how can anyone see it as
something
_other than_ that "community" that should be developing
"criteria for
determining whether content is good or bad"? IMO, STC is US,
not a
group of "others."
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How many of these 17,000 actually work in the technical writing
community OUTSIDE of academia?
I think that that the STC would become more useful and better
known if their publications were more oriented to real world, working
tech communicators rather than a publishing forum for grad students.
