Re: Core Skills for Technical Communicators
> 1) Write well
>
> 2) Learn really, really fast
[snip]
I agree with the above list as the only absolute requirements to be able
to do good work in the field. Given those, there will be some technical
writing assignments you can do well.
However:
Methinks particular assignments will nearly always have additional requirements.
The above are almost never enough to do any particular assignment well.
I think I'll keep my short list... the original question was about "core skills," and my list pretty much covers that. The skills you're talking about, including project management, schmoozing developers, and similar pasttimes are all important, but vary so much from place to place and job to job that you might as well use core skill #2 each place you go.
Just my thoughts...
----->Mike
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