Re: Non-technical, Technical Writers

Subject: Re: Non-technical, Technical Writers
From: "Hutchings, Christa" <cwhutchings -at- HOMEWIRELESS -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 09:56:50 -0400

Candace Bamber wrote:

> The thing that worries me about our profession isn't the prevalence of
> the "non-technical" - it's that our education systems are still
> focusing on knowledge as an end in itself, in a time when
> knowledge changes all the time. I would like to see a move to using
> knowledge (information) as a means of teaching the discipline/art
> of Thought instead.
>
Isn't this what a liberal arts degree is supposed to do? In fact, I have
often told folks that the reason I majored in English was "because it
taught me how to think." I can pick up a lot of technical know-how on
the job, but if I didn't know how to think, I wouldn't know what
questions to ask, or when to ask them!

Chris Welch-Hutchings
Sr. Technical Writer
Home Wireless Networks, Inc.
cwhutchings -at- homewireless -dot- com




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