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Technical Writer is two words. If you aren't technical, how can you write
about something technical? .....
Tony Markatos responds:
Easily. The primary thing that a TW has to do is to determine the essential
end-user tasks accomplished with the product and how all of those tasks
interrelate. The determination of the interrelationships is especially
important.
You may have to know some stuff about technology; however, that is
secondary. (In fact, a pretty good manual can often be written without any
knowledge of the technology employed.)
Technical Writer is a poor name for our career field.
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