Definition of Tech Writer, was STC is broken

[Ned Bedinger]

Bill Swallow wrote:
>> I would not include the much larger, non-visible part of the software: that
>> is clearly the domain of the engineers, programmers, etc.
> 
> I disagree. Software of any kind has one purpose, and that is to
> communicate information to the user. Whether the coding goes into the
> UI or the back end, it's all serving communication of information.
> 

...and is fair game as a documentation assignment, for a qualified 
technical writer.

Funny how generalizing about us as communicators seems like static to 
me, but generalizing the function of a system as communication is like 
music to my ears.


My $.02, spent wisely :-)

Ned Bedinger
doc at edwordsmith.com