RE: Breaking into the tech writing job market

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> assumptions that, say, an engineer might make about his 
> audience. I've seen manuals written by the designer
> that are so difficult to understand, that it's not worth 
> the effort.
> They write about the subject like they think about it... 
> Not like they're trying to teach someone else.

The engineer or designer doesn't write poorly because he is an
engineer with knowledge. He writes poorly because while he may be a
great engineer, he is a poor writer. Don't penalize him because he
has knowledge. He just isn't paid primarily to write words...we are.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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