Re: Technical writer survey: What should we really call ourselves?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

During the dotcom years, various tech writer forums I attended were often rife 
with "what should we call ourselves?" discussions, mostly initiated by people 
who had come to the conclusion that new delivery methods (online, multimedia, UI 
embedding, etc.) had somehow become more important as defining characteristics 
of "the profession" than "technical" and "writing."  In more recent times I have 
heard less of this, and had begun to think that these "the medium is more 
important than the message" folks had left along with the Pets.com sock puppet, 
but apparently I need to rethink that perception.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave C" <davec2468 -at- aim -dot- com>
> But mostly I write for the print or electronically-distributed media,
> so Technical Writer, then, is a badge worn proudly and appropriately.
>
> Why fix what's not broken?

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