Tania says,
> Professional writing is, like Russ says, "writing you get paid to
> do". But I think it's more than that. I think a degree or course
> in "professional writing" should qualify a person to write for pay,
> for example, as a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader -- a
> person who can make a profession out of writing!
Well, it seems to me this is actually _less_ than "writing you get
paid to do." A lawyer, an insurance agent, a social worker, an
architect, do what _I'd_ call "professional writing," and get paid
specifically to do it -- briefs, reports to clients, recommendations
to authorities, proposals . . . etc., etc. They're not "hired
guns," in the sense that they're hired _just_ to write (as, e.g., a
tech writer at a software firm would be) but it seems to me what they
do is professional writing. Or at least an argument can be made that
it is.
-- Russ
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