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> Whatever "body" hands out this certification will have an updated
> certification test every year or so ... you have to stay relevant or
> else you'll disappear. So that's another test we'll have to take, once
> again promoting test taking over writing.
No updated tests, but yes, continual education, yes >you have to stay
relevant or else you'll disappear<.
That's bad?
> This certification will create a cottage industry based on helping
> writers pass the test(s), not become better tech writers.
How do they help you fake the required experience that you must prove?
> better test takers, not better writers. Our profession takes
> another hit when these test takers don't cut it at the new job.
We're taking hits now because they aren't cutting it at their jobs now.
> Here's the sad thing ... if the STC was better at its job,
> membership in it could be a form of low-level certification.
yep...but they're not.
John Posada
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