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RE: Why are companies now requiring techical writer candidates to be SMEs?
Subject:RE: Why are companies now requiring techical writer candidates to be SMEs? From:"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:17:49 -0400
Are we in violent agreement then?
Bill Swallow
wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com
::: -----Original Message-----
::: >>A SME is nothing more than its unabbreviated
::: >>form: Subject Matter Expert. Tech writers can
::: >>be and *should* be a SME for whatever they are documenting.
:::
::: That doesn't seem to be a universally accepted description
::: of SME, as I have
::: seen more posts than I can even count, on this very board,
::: discussing TW's
::: gathering information from SME's, TW's being able to (or
::: not) interact
::: successfully with SME's, TW's acting as interfaces between
::: SME's and the end
::: users, ad infinitum.
:::
::: In any case, it appears that the job ad referenced in the
::: previous post was
::: nothing more than a request for someone who had experience
::: DOCUMENTING (not
::: creating) the application in question.
:::
::: That would not seem to fall beyond the pale of a perfectly
::: acceptable
::: posting for an experienced TW, and an explanation of it
::: would not appear to
::: require invoking surreptitious attempts to circumvent an
::: open bidding
::: process by tailoring the requirements to only fit the
::: candidate that the
::: hiring manager already has in mind.
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