Re: How can I be a technical writer?

Subject: Re: How can I be a technical writer?
From: Roger Mallett <roger -at- CSICAL -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:55:11 -0700

Ahha, I see that Hookt on Fonix rilly workt for you.


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>From: Tracey Moore[SMTP:traceym -at- APPLIEDMAPPING -dot- COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 11:48 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: FW: How can I be a technical writer?
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>Me too. I guess an English degree has nothing to do with spelling and
>grammar either.
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>I really desire to jump on the publick phycisists too!
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>From: Anderson, Ben
>Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 10:58 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: FW: How can I be a technical writer?
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>Gee, I miss him already...
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>>From: Randal Brown[SMTP:contract5 -at- ARCTICMAIL -dot- COM]
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 9:43 AM
>>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>Subject: How can I be a technical writer?
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>>Want-to-beees:
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>>How can I be a technical writer? I have no knowledge base. I have my
>>English degree but I don't really know a thing about anything technical. I
>>couldn't tell you the diff between a Dynamic Link Library and the Publick
>>Library. I am just like a lot of you out there in that respect. With
>>low-pay service work staring at me, I really desire to jump on the tech
>>write
>>bandwagon.
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>>I think that this concept of becoming a technical writer without a knowledge
>>base is an invention of the 90s and a very tight job market for "decent"
>>jobs. Just look at some of the ads for technical writers in some of the old
>>technical pubs from the 50s. You will find that most ask for engineers and
>>phycisists who can write, NOT writers who want to pretend that they know
>>something technical.
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>>This deception makes me sick to my stomach. I'm out of here, and on to what
>>I hope will be a more honest form of earning a living. Will the owner of
>>this list please do whatever is necessary to cancel my account. I
>>don't know
>>how!
>>
>>Randal
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