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Subject:Re: Are we just secretaries? From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, mariposa625 -at- yahoo -dot- com (Mariposa BY) writes:
>
>Geez. I feel like a secretary. I am not writing - I am
>making it pretty - formatting it - and also
>re-writing his writing. But executive secretaries -
>don't they do that too?
>
>It dawned on me today that some of w3hat I do is -
>well - not that different from secretarial work?
>
>The user guides and specs are a different story. There
>I truly create - write - devise - use discretion and
>judgement. But this kind of stuff - I feel like a
>secretary.
>
On behalf of editors everywhere, I hope you are not
saying that only writing is creative and that editing
a document to make it clearer is only secretarial work...
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