Information Engineers

[John Posada]

> But I'd say the rest of my comment stands, or possibly it's a
> question:
> 
> "Is our industry moving away from English graduates to IT
> graduates?"
> 
> (and yes, that's a very open question, but it seems to reflect
> things here locally with me)

If it isn't, I think it should be. As I've progressed through my last
3-4 gigs, I've found that technical knowledge is much more necessary
than grammar knowledge. Whether it was documenting web services,
SaaS, and system infrastructure at one gig, databases, .net, and EAIs
at another, or multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) at the current
one, knowing the subjects from a technical perspective is much more
important than understanding sentence construction. 

Is it better to poorly or incorrectly describe a subject and never ue
the word "simply", or to produce content that teaches even the most
experienced CE's in the field and use 10% more words?

I don't know about the environment that the rest of you are in, but
where I am now, you can't be a developer without a masters in
compsci, and to be taken seriously, you should have a PhD. Hell...two
of our product managers have PhD's in network technology and one of
my basic developers has six patents I can't even begin to understand.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"They say everyone needs goals. Mine is to live forever.
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