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Subject:RE: How are Technical Writer's Perceived From:"McCarter, Kim" <kmccarte -at- harris -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:08:46 -0500
Maybe it's the crowd I associate with outside of work, but when I tell people
I'm a technical writer, the reaction indicates that they don't really know what
my job is, but that it's rather mysterious and requires a lot of knowledge.
Bottom line - they think I'm smart, so who am I to argue? (It's a better
reaction that I got, previously, when I told people I was a high school English
teacher - they just thought I was obviously crazy.)
On the other hand, most engineers I know (with the wonderful exception of one
engineer I work with who told me, "Most people don't recognize the value of good
documentation.") seem to think technical writers are simply annoying. They fail
to see why we cause such a fuss when they make changes to an application and
don't tell us - or why we insist they schedule time in their development plan to
document the application before releasing it.
So, how are technical writers received? I really think it depends on who you
ask.
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Kim McCarter
Information Design & Development
Harris Corporation, Network Support Division
(321) 724-3497
kmccarte -at- harris -dot- com
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