Definition of Tech Writer, was STC is broken

[Beth Agnew]

When you're working with Software Developers, having the title of 
Information Developer puts you on a par with them, salarywise as well as 
professionally. It's less about inferiority and more about establishing 
in the minds of your colleagues and especially management that what you 
do with information is equally as important and complex as what software 
developers do with code. Like it or not, status within organizations is 
crucial to getting one's goals accomplished. While there are companies 
that are enlightened enough to know the true value of their technical 
writers, that is not always the case.
--Beth

>Gene wrote:
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>>My first thought when I hear of technical
>>writers trying to get their titles changed to
>>"technical communicator," "information
>>developer," etc., is that it must be a terrible
>>thing to be working in a place where being
>>called a writer causes one to develop such
>>an inferiority complex.
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