atw: Re: Apart from using Word 2002, what else am I doing wrong?

Howard Silcock:

> While we're on the subject, why do so many of us now call ourselves
> 'technical communicators' rather than 'technical writers' ( =
> 'cleaner, rich
> twits')? Is it to make ourselves more employable? My own opinion
> - to which
> you're *all* entitled - is that *writing* is the core of what we do.

A tenable view, but I prefer the converse -- not all writing communicates. A
professional communicator writes not for the sake of creating a product (the
text), but for the sake of carrying out a process (communication) in which
the product (the text) is the instrument.

Michael Lewis
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Brandle Pty Limited
Sydney, Australia
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