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"Goober Writer" <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:215983 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
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>
> Yes, these things will make your resume more visible,
> more robust, yadda yadda yadda. BUT, I still maintain
> that no level of degree or certification makes a
> better tech writer.
>
> As we've seen/heard over the past few days, and over
> the past many years, there are people in our field
> doing a damn great job as a tech writer who don't even
> have a college education, or who have never been
> formally trained as a technical writer. These people
> might be the absolute best candidate for a job, but
> could easily be overshadowed by a potential idiot with
> a "MS/PhD in TechComm" brandished on their resume.
>
I suppose you could say that if so many people didn't see an advanced
degree--or even experience in the profession--as a requirement to run the
6th largest economy in the world, it's not hard to see why people don't
think one is useful to be hired in our profession.
After all, it's just writing, right?
But then again, Bill Gates never got even his undergraduate degree.
I'm no researcher, but I'll bet that someone who was could find a pretty
dtrong correllation between both undergraduate and graduate degrees in the
field and quality of work done by people with such degrees.
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