RE: need advice

[Anne Robotti <Anne -dot- Robotti -at- radisys -dot- com>]

Pankaj, just to clarify, are you looking for advice on getting
jobs writing manuals in English, or another language?

I'm *honestly* not trying to be funny. But I've noticed that 
tech writers for whom English is a second language trying to 
produce manuals for an English-speaking audience can often have
a hurdle to get over before they get to the tools question at
all: the hurdle of writing understandable, correctly spelled,
correctly punctuated English. 

As far as tools go, FrameMaker is my personal favorite and seems
to be kind of a trend here on the East Coast. But it's just as
easy to get jobs here if you know Word or Robohelp. But they all
ask for writing samples, and I think it's desirable that the 
writing samples be of the highest possible quality.

Anne


> Hi ,
> I am new to tech writing and would wanna know wat r the tools 
> one has to be comfortable in to get a break as a Tech writer. 
> I am based at Bangalore in India.
> thanks,
>  Ms Pankaj sharma
> 

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