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Re: Professional respect

Subject: Re: Professional respect
From: "elizabeth mathew" <eliza_denny -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:39:51 +0530

From: "Meena S"

...some of my engineer colleagues ... look down on a TW as someone who >just "CCPs" (that's cut, copy, paste) and align and format documents. >...Technical Writer ... does not add any value whatsoever to the >software production process.


I'm sure many of us would agree to the problem stated above. I too. Many of my Engineer colleagues have made it a habit to make fun of a TW's work. I too had the same feeling at some point of time, esp when I had to do lots of functional documents. But I would never let myself go down in spirits, and would always see to it that i win the fight by quoting some example. Once I even made an engineer write about a concept just to show them how different the two docs would be.

I don't claim all these (defending and convincing) would bring in a change. And I dont hope this attitude towards a TWriter would change completely. Best way is to accept the fact that your hard works may never be acknowledged and might sink among other MIGHTY works.

For that reason, I would completely agree to what Michael West wrote. Stay focussed on your goal, knowing that you've added value to the company's product.


Elizabeth Denny
Technical Writer
Techno Pundits, India


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