RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question - Why discuss certification?

Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question - Why discuss certification?
From: "Secara, Maggie" <MSecara -at- sjm -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:22:10 -0700


An engineer or a programmer can point to how well
> their solution works, how long it took to create, and whether it came
> in under budget.
>
> So what criteria can a tech writer use to convince a
> potential employer?
>
> Writing samples? I could be passing someone else's samples off as my
> own. Work done professionally for other people may not be mine to use
> for samples.

And an engineer or a programmer could be taking credit for someone
else's work too, or over-playing how much of the solution was to their
credit. What, only writers can lie?


Maggie

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