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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:10:24 -0700 (PDT), Tom Murrell wrote:
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>It tends to annoy me when people focus on one or the other of these two
>concepts as somehow the only one that is important. (As in, "Any idiot can
>write. What you need is to be technically competent." Or on the other hand,
>"I'm a Writer, not a mechanic, Jim!" <g>) I think a writer can be an effete
>snob, to quote Spiro Agnew, something I rarely do. And I think a geek can churn
>out words that may, or more likely may not, communicate something to an
>audience. But it takes a Technical Writer, a true Technical Writer, to marry
>the two into the discipline we practice under the rubric of Technical Writer.
>
>Tom Murrell
I want to join the discussion for one second and describe my point of
view: "I am too _stupid_ to be a programmer and too _intelligent_ to be
a user only, so I become a technical writer".
