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Re: Tech Writing Question

Subject: Re: Tech Writing Question
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:09:45 -0500


At 9:14 AM -0400 4/19/02, Bonnie Granat wrote:

What about technical writers who *write* specifications? I know of at least
one person who does that (a former colleague). Does one need intimate
knowledge of programming languages to perform that job? I do not qualify for
most of the jobs I'm seeing advertised currently, but I'm wondering if
writing specs might be something I could do.

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I don't see why not. The people who write most specs (engineerrs and programmers) may know the technology, but often the communication of the technology is lost in the process.

If you take the notes from the engineers and write it up what is different from what you normally do?

Scott


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