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A Technical writer is a professional writer who designs, creates, maintains, and updates technical documentation—including online help, user guides, white papers, design specifications, and other documents. Engineers, scientists, and other professionals may also produce technical writing, often handing their work to a professional technical writer for editing and formatting. The work of technical writers includes any technical subject requiring explanation to a particular audience. A technical writer usually is not a subject matter expert (SME). Companies, governments and other institutions hire technical writers not for their expertise in a particular subject, but for their expertise in gathering information, analyzing the subject and the audience, and producing clear documentation. (See technical writing.) The technical writer's primary responsibility is to gather information and produce documentation tailored to a particular audience. A good technical writer creates documentation that is accurate, complete, unambiguous and as concise as possible. Technical writers communicate in many ways printed documentation, Web-based or other electronic documentation, training materials, and industrial film scripts. Technical writers normally possess a mix of technical and language abilities. They may have a degree or certification in technical communications. Many technical writers switch from another technical field such as engineering or science, often after taking classes in technical communications.
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