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>I am attempting to recruit a "senior" technical writer. I am >finding people who respond to my job announcements who have >accomplished all sorts of things and claim to be technical writers >so that they can be hired by my company.
>What is a technical writer? I need a definition so when I turn >someone down I can give a short answer.
The responses so far have been...um...quaint.
I'm sensing that you've seen resumes that are a little wide of the mark regarding tech writing skills. The few times that I've had to hire a tech writer I was inundated with resumes from programmers to analysts. These were people who had done programming and analysis and *also* documented what they had done. The projects that they had worked on sounded impressive, but using the word "documentation" in their resumes seemed a bit of a stretch.
The following provide very basic definitions of what a tech writer is/does:
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