RE: Breaking into the tech writing job market

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  John Posada
> > I hold that you don't have to be an expert in the field 
> > that you're writing about. All you need is a way to 
> > understand something (a patient designer or engineer - 
> > whatever) and the ability to put it into understandable 
> > words... Period! It's the command of the language
> > that you have to have.
> 
> No...not an expert in the subject, but an expert technical writer.
> The original post to which I raised the objection said that to write
> for a novice audience, it is better to be a novice writer...you get
> to identify better with the reader.
> 
> ...and there is so much more to it than the command of the language.
> 

And that's why I think we have no right to complain about the state of the
field when we encourage people who know little or nothing about technical
writing to try to find a job doing it at a company that also knows nothing
about what is good and what is bad -- just because they have a master's
degree in English.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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