Re: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)
So I'll ask the group: What single course proved to be most useful in your
technical writing work? For me, it was a course in Technical Illustration,
which gave me a lot of skills I never would have picked up any other way.
Mathematics, of course.
Actually, the single course is one that I TAUGHT. HP developed a wonderful calculator that was programmable (HP-48G). Even with my degree in mathematics and minor in computer science, I couldn't figure out how to program it to perform the quadratic formula.
I eventually figured it out, wrote two freelance manuals on how to use the HP-48G, and launched my tech writing career.
Diane Evans
Technical Writer
Washington State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/washing.html
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