The real danger, and I'm writing from experience, is that once the engineers get the skills and tools to create documents the writers could be let go.
In that type of firm, the engineer's customer-facing documents would then be reviewed for format and style by the in-house editor, whose main job is the CEO's assistant. Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:51:16 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: OT: Scary responsibility in job ad To: framers at lists.frameusers.com A local company listed this as one of the responsibilities in a job ad for a technical writer: "coach engineers to improve their writing skills" It makes me laugh and cringe in equal measures. Nadine _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as cseal at sympatico.ca. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/cseal%40sympatico.ca Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111006/abb84a6b/attachment.html>
