Re: You're SUPPOSED to have good communication skills if you're a tech writer

[Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

"Jan Henning" <henning -at- r-l -dot- de> wrote in message news:199563 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 

> - A technical writer needs to be skilled in writing - a non-trivial and 
> non-common skill set - before he or she can seriously think about 
> practising. Thus, being able to write well is not a skill that 
> everybody has or that is in any way common. And: Having that skill 
> alone already enables you to do useful work, just as there are a lot of 
> GPs.

If writing skills are so valuable (ie non-common, non-trivial), why doesn't the
marketplace then pay writers the same as doctors or programmers? Why has the
market overwhelmingly said tech writers with only writing skills will
consistently make less than their technically minded counterparts. 

Andrew Plato 

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