RE: Is tech writing a profession? Are we professionals?

Subject: RE: Is tech writing a profession? Are we professionals?
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:26:36 -0500


If you are asking me whether I think of technical writing/editing
as a profession, my answer will be meaningless unless you tell me
what you mean by "profession."


Bonnie Granat | www.GranatEdit.com
bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US


>
> I am curious to know how others in our field categorize
> themselves. The
> Society for Technical Communication had a thread going on
> this subject a few
> years where one academic type said that we are most
> emphatically not a
> profession. I wondered whether the dust had settled and the
> trade (or
> whatever) vs. profession designation/categorization had
> finally been agreed
> upon by most tech writers.
>
> Does top management see us as professionals? Are
programmer/analysts
> professionals?
>



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