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Re: Re: What is "technical" writing? (Was: RE: What to do?)
Subject:Re: Re: What is "technical" writing? (Was: RE: What to do?) From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:41:01 -0500
"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> wrote in message news:E1AEbvK-0002rS-UV -at- czar -dot- hostingserver -dot- net -dot- -dot- -dot-
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> "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> wrote in message
>news:217930 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> > > Chuck Martin opined: <<What I'm saying--I've said it before--is that
> > > Technical Communication is an engineering discipline.>>
> > >
> >
> > Not to the technical communicator who is explaining technical matters to
a
> > nontechnical audience!
> >
> I'm not sure I see how this process--which is neither easy nor something
> that can be done well by most untrained--means that the discipline is not
an
> engineering one.
>
When an engineer learns to write about engineering topics, he or she does
not study "engineering." He or she studies "writing." The skills that allow
an engineer to write about technical subjects are writing skills.
Technical writing is *taught* in engineering programs (such as Northeastern
University), but that doesn't mean that writing is an engineering
discipline.
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