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Subject:Technician/Writer or Writer/Technician? From:Angela Howard <angela -at- SB -dot- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:04:50 -0700
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 02:21:22 GMT, Edward Savitz
<sg94cshj -at- DUNX1 -dot- OCS -dot- DREXEL -dot- EDU> asked:
>Does it matter if we are a techies who
>write(Technician/Writer) or a writer with a specialty in technical areas
>(Writer/Technician)?
NO!
Being a good technician/engineer/developer requires a specific set of
skills. Being a good writer requires a specific set of skills. Having one
of these sets of skills does not preclude you from having the other,
although I often hear a lot of comments to the contrary on this list. IMO,
it doesn't matter which of these sets of skills you learned first, as long
as you learned them well.
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Angela M. Howard
Technical Writing and Indexing
angela -at- sb -dot- aol -dot- com
(805)882-2350 x126
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