I would like to add one more profession related to writing: Technical Writing. In India, one industry where you would find technical writers aplenty is software. For software projects and products, technical writers create: i. User documentation like manuals, guides and online help. ii. Systems documentation like specifications and design documents. iii. Marketing and pre-sales collateral like case studies, white papers and proposals. iv. Documents for corporate communications like annual reports, press releases and corporate web site content. v. Training material like guides and interactive demos.
Skills/attributes of a technical writer: i. Excellent language skills ii. Interpersonal skills iii. Ability and willingness to learn about the relevant domain and technology iv. Proficiency in the tools of the trade
Growth prospects: * One can progress from being a tech writer to a senior tech writer to a project leader before working your way towards becoming a documentation manager * Technical writers, especially those focused on a particular domain, gather a lot of domain expertise and can progress to becoming business analysts. * Quality Analyst
Your posting is interesting.You've not touched on the most important part of it namely the remuneration!I'm especially interested in it for the simple reason that I'm undergoing a course on Technical writing at the age of 50 after(VRS) being a sales cum administration Manager for about 25 years at Chennai.
RE:Add on: Technical Writing
by Suvarna on Nov 07, 2005 10:16 AM Permalink
Pankaj,
The entire content of your message save two sentences is directly lifted from our article about Technical Writing on Rediff.
The entire article is at: http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2005/jul/13tech.htm
You could have provided a link to the article as otherwise it seems that the content is yours. You do know that one of the key principles of technical writing, or indeed any writing, is providing appropriate references and protecting copyrights.
RE:Add on: Technical Writing
by Pankaj Jaju on Nov 07, 2005 05:15 PM Permalink
In my last post, i forgot to mention the source of my posting. You can find the entire content at the follwing link.
