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Re: Tech Writer/Documentation Specialist

Subject: Re: Tech Writer/Documentation Specialist
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:33:21 -0700


Anita Legsdin wrote:

Are these titles devised by
non-writers?)

I've always thought they were devised by writers with a desperate need to feel that they were important.

Certainly, I've heard of writers using inflated diction such as "information design" to describe what they were doing - and there was no sign of a flame-thrower at their backs coercing them into being pretentious, either.

Personally, I'm content to call myself a writer - even "author" sounds too grandiose to my ear. True, writing may not be all I do, but, then, who thinks that managig is all that a manager does?

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I tell you, friend, that you're dreaming
'Cuz the countdown has begun;
We're having fun
Down on Airstrip One."
- Attila the Stockbroker



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