Information Engineers

[Mary Arrotti]

Yes - technical writing does not involve just one skill. It's not enough (as I'd previously stated) to understand the business/technology but produce poorly written or inaccurate docs. There's a skill set that's needed - communication, organization, the ability to understand subject matter, troubleshooting, ability to write clearly, etc. etc. etc.  If this were a recipe we could argue over what's most needed. And we'd probably differ on what we think what makes a good technical writer & what skill is the most important.
   
  My argument would be that it's most important that the info you give users is accurate & what they need. If you can't do that - then there's not a huge value in giving users wonderfully written and well organized docs that contain irrelevant or wrong info. 
   
  
Chris Borokowski <athloi at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Developing docs involves more skills than writing
alone. It's mainly the organization of that data into
a logical presentation, and knowledge and expertise in
techniques of making it easy to find from multiple
approaches.

--- Mary Arrotti wrote:

> I think of my role as more like "This is my area
> of expertise - I can produce the docs more
> effectively than anyone else."
       
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