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While the hours worked on various projects over the past few years are helpful,
they'll be more persuasive when contextualized as a situation in the future.
In a company I consulted with, we justified hiring two new tech writers by
presenting the man-hours needed to produce copy for future products coming
down the pipeline, desired revisions of currently weak or dated manuals, and
showing ways that a larger tech writing staff could serve the needs of other
departments. We also looked at specific needs. We were putting out a NLP
package and needed a tech writer with a linguistics BG.
