Re: A technique to get on development's good side

[David Farbey <david -at- farbey -dot- co -dot- uk>]

Those of you who are interested in certification in general may be
interested in what's happening in Europe. A team of representatives
from  European technical writing societies, together with academics who
teach  tech writing, have recently published a document outlining
guidelines and competencies for technical writer training.

You can download the report from:
http://www.tceurope.org/tecdocnet/tecdocnet_index.htm

(Of course, I doubt whether any TW qualification would satisfy some of
the developers I've had to work with in the past...)

David Farbey,
London UK


--- Michele Marques <msmarques -at- rogers -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> brought up certification as a way
> to 
> demonstrate credentials of technical writers.
> 
> There have been lots of arguments both for and against this idea in
> the past. 
> You might want to take a look at what the Editors' Association of
> Canada is 
> doing with regards to certification for editors 
> (http://www.editors.ca/certification/index.htm).
> 
> Although editing is a different skill from writing, I think that some
> of the 
> issues are the same.
> 


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