RE: Breaking into the tech writing job market

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> I wouldn't say that necessarily. I've seen manuals that were
> obviously written by engineers who, first of all, couldn't 
> write a sentence

Who said anything about engineers? I'm talking about skilled
technical writers. A skilled technical writer is not an
engineer...s/he is a technical writer with the ability to write for a
targeted audience, even if that target is a novice user.

Writing like a novice requires no skill. Writing FOR a novice
requires more skill than for an expert.  



John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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