On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Graham Smart wrote:
> The seminar will look at how writing is used in the workplace/professions,
> rather than try to teach how to *do* professional writing. However, I
> will be asking the participants to do some on-site research looking at a
> particular genre in a professional/organizational setting of their
> choosing; they'll each be examining some socio-cultural aspect of a
> genre and then writing this up, hopefully as a conference paper or
> publication.
In any case, it might be useful to draw a distinction between the kind of
writing Tania identified, and that Russ called "gun-for-hire" writing,
and the kind that's normally done by people in the course of their
profession, even though they aren't primarily identified as *writers* per
se. In the first case, writing often involves a complicated series of
relationships with "content specialists" -- the people who are expert at
what the gun-for-hire is writing about -- and possibly editors, too. In
the second, while those relationships may form, they aren't necessarily
an integral part of the work.
I'm sure there are other differences as well . . .
Marcy
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