RE: The End Of Technical Writing Was RE: Re: a different res ume red flag

[Michael Strickland <Mstrickland -at- entriq -dot- com>]

Actually, I think a better name change would be from TECHWR-L to TECHWNR-L.
But that's just one man's opinion.  ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Markos [mailto:ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 4:07 PM
To: Michael Strickland; TECHWR-L
Subject: The End Of Technical Writing Was RE: Re: a different resume red
flag

I was told by one of the mainstays on this listserv that the reason why
there are so few End-User Task Analysis posts is because most of us TWs
already have that issue licked, and that the REAL issues we face are how to
use the tools.  In other words, we mainly face production problems, not
writing problems. 
Therefore, we should no longer have the title Technical Writer.  Our title
should be Technical Communications Production Specialist.  And the name of
this listserv needs to be changed from TECHWR-L to TECHCPS-L.

Tony Markos

--- Michael Strickland <Mstrickland -at- entriq -dot- com> wrote:

I'm not sure what methodology Tony used to calculate the number of postings
to this forum by subject, but here is the tally as I've kept track of it:

 * Tool question postings: 418
 
 * Formating related postings: 243
 
 * End-user task analysis related postings: 6
 
 * Etymological arguments: 34,989,364
 
 * Holier-than-thou, thou-art-wrong rants: 22,845,392
 
 * Rambling, essay-length discourses that have little
   to do with technical
   communication, written with the chief intent of
   displaying the author's
   ostensible knowledge and puffing up the author's
   ego:
  374,948,202,983,645,881
 



		
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