RE: What department are you in?

[MAGGIE SECARA <SECARAM -at- mainsaver -dot- com>]

I guess it depends on the product you're documenting or the industry you're
part of.  When it's software, the documentation is a deliverable just like
the product itself, and one does not ship without the other.  I can see in
other fields that it might be different.  


Maggie Secara
secaram -at- mainsaver -dot- com

"All the world's a stage, Mick, but some of us are dreadfully
under-rehearsed."


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> From: 	Christi Carew[SMTP:christi -at- sageinst -dot- COM]
> 
> Dan Caldwell wrote:
> >Is there a particular department that tech writers get attached to when
> >they're the only writer in a company? I recently joined a wireless
> >telecom startup and found myself faced with the unexpected dilemma of
> >"where do I belong?" 
> 
> I, too, am a lone writer in a telecommunications company. My manager is
> the
> Marketing Manager (managing only himself mind you, as he is the marketing
> dept.). In my last company, where there were four writers, we were
> originally under marketing and then moved to the Customer Service
> umbrella,
> which encompassed Training and Customer Support. I've never been at a
> company where the writers reported to engineering or development. It's
> always been service or marketing.
> I think the placement depends on how your company views its
> documentation--
> as a form of marketing or customer service. I tend to go with the latter.
>