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Subject:Re: Breaking into the tech writing job market From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:08:05 -0700 (PDT)
> 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.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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