Re: "Software Technical Writing is a Dying Career"

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

In my experience, this has more to do with motivation than with any 
innate natural talent.  Sure, there are engineers who can't write and 
could never be taught to write, but they are far outnumbered by 
engineers who could write or be taught to write, but who flat out just 
don't WANT to write and will never put in any meaningful effort to learn 
to do it well.

The reason the technical writer exists as a job description is that 
there are people who are willing to learn how to write AND how to 
acquire the necessary subject matter knowledge to pry what they haven't 
got the time to learn themselves out of those who already know it, and 
who are usually willing to do it for somewhat less money than it would 
cost to get an engineer to take writing seriously enough to put in the 
effort to learn to do it well.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 8/21/2015 1:19 PM, John G wrote: