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Subject:Re: What do you want to be called? From:"Bowes, Rebecca A" <Rebecca -dot- A -dot- Bowes -at- WGP -dot- TWC -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:04:59 -0500
Personally, I prefer Technical Writer. But at a previous job, we were called
"documentation developers" because it paralleled "software developers."
Management hoped it would give us more credibility, although I'm not sure
that it did. However, I rather like the term because it implies more than
writing.
