Re: If you are not a tech writer...

Subject: Re: If you are not a tech writer...
From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY -at- CAMINS -dot- CAMOSUN -dot- BC -dot- CA>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 12:41:45 -0700

> Date: Mon, 03 May 1993 08:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Thus spake Joan Miles
<miles -at- CCD -dot- HARRIS -dot- COM>

JM>Peter,
JM>I am just curious--if you are not a tech writer, what do you do and
JM>how does being on this list help you?
JM>Joan

Among other things I am a writing consultant, and I teach general
composition courses for some 'technical' (whatever that means)
programs.

In fact, the definiton of TECHNICAL in technical writing really does
need definiton, does it not? The needs of writers in all kinds of
fields have a lot in common it seems to me -- to the point that
the special needs of any one field are minor, compared to the needs
held in common with others. Perhaps that is why PROFESSIONAL WRITING
strikes me as a more appropriate name.

Peter
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