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Subject:Re: What is required to be a tech writer? From:"Martin Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:00:20 -0000
Hello Bulgaria!
IMHO...
The requirements are vague because no one organisation dictates or enforces
them - they are a matter of opinion and debate.
In general, organisation and output depend on the commercial pressures and
chance. If your department produces accurate and useful documentation on
time, then it conforms to the usual expectations.
However, you might try reading Sun Technical Publications "Read Me First: A
Style Guide for the Computer Industry" which is well respected, broader in
content than the title suggests, and contains an appendix on "Developing a
publications department".
Certainly, in the UK there are no real formal requirements for a techwriting
department (unless you're going for ISO recognition, in which case it's more
about having a quality control procedure than what that procedure actually
is).
Cheers
Martin
"Iliana Kostova" <i_kostadinova -at- prosyst -dot- bg> wrote in message news:191398 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> Hi there!
>
> I am a technical writer from Bulgaria and I've been working this for
> about 4 years. In Bulgaria there are no official courses on tech writing
> and the requirements are very vague. I want to ask you what is most
> frequently required for a technical writer so that I can check if out
> department conforms with the standard requirements.
>
> P.S. Please, execute my bad English.
>
> --
> Iliana Kostova, Documentation Manager
> ProSyst Bulgaria LTD
> 48 Vladajska Str., Sofia, Bulgaria
>
>
>
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