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Subject:RE: What is a "techie" technical writer? From:"Thompson, Carole" <cthompson -at- sfa -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:53:55 -0500
"Byfield, Bruce" wrote:
>Do we really want to go there? :-)
No you are right Bruce. I don't want to go there. I am unfortunately
inarticulate today. And the archives are full of eloquent defenses of both
types. I guess I was really wondering what hiring managers look for on a
resume when they want a "techie". Are there a lot of ex-programmers (or
other technical fields) doing technical writing these days?
Carole
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