Re: More title questions

["Raj Machhan" <raj -dot- machhan -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Editor as a designation has its moorings in the print media. It is widely
used to describe the pecking order in newspaper and magazines. So we have
sub-editors, deputy editors, assistant editors, associate editors and so on,
with the editor-in-chief as the top boss.  However, the job profile of these
editorial positions (excluding the overworked sub-editors, who lie at the
bottom of the pile) also involves a fair amount of writing.

I do not see any reason why we cannot apply the same structure, in a limited
way, to positions  in a Technical Communications set up. So instead of
having designations such as "technical writer editor", or "technical writer
and editor" we could simply put it as "technical editor", "sr technical
editor" and so on. The designations need to be standardized to avoid
confusion.

Raj




On Nov 26, 2007 7:45 PM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:

> Would you say "technical writer and editor," "technical writer &
> editor," "technical writer-editor," or "technical writer/editor?"
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