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Subject: Re: Most annoying word
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:56:30 -0500

Claire Conant wrote:

Tech writers are not "content providers" - those are the SMEs
that give the raw material. The tech writers are the magicians that,
along with skilled technical editors <ahem!>, make it understandable. =)

I've been called a lot of things, including "content provider;" however, it was a slash after Technical Writer and it referred to providing content to the corporate website. This task was in addition and subordinate to my primary function of creating user guides and online Help.
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