Technical Writing 101

Write your way to success! Get started in a career that has a promising future and is financially rewarding. Opportunities in Technical Writing Careers provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to enter the field of technical writing. This career-boosting book will help you: Determine the specialty that's right for you, from proposal writing to research to manufacturing Acquire in-depth knowledge of technical writing Find out what kind of salary you can expect Understand the daily routine of your chosen field Focus your job search using industry resources ENJOY A GREAT CAREER AS A: Copyeditor Documentation specialist Software technical writer Knowledge analyst Trainer Technical edito...

THIS BOOK contains material used to train new engineers and technicians in a large manufacturing plant of a Fortune 500 company. It was not a company-training course. To the contrary, it was one engineer's attempt to get coworkers to document their work in a reasonable manner. Coworkers who attended my tutorial sessions went on to become effective technical writers. In my opinion, our department is the model for the corporation. Everybody finishes his or her projects with a report. There is a format for each type of document and a system for archiving these documents. Formal reports go to the corporate library, and they are available to all on-line. It is quite an effective system. The weak link, even today, is that not all technical people in the co...

DESIGN DISCOURSE: COMPOSING AND REVISING PROGRAMS IN PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WRITING addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures-what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing"-often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. DESIGN DISCOURSE offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to "function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical." Contributors include Diana L. Ashe, Brian D. Ballentine, Kelly Belanger, Julianne Couch, Anthony Di Renzo, James M. Dubinsky, Jude Edminster, David Franke, Gary...