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Subject:Re: Future trends in technical writing? From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Dave Till <dave -at- davetill -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:56:53 -0800 (PST)
The way I learned it, TWing, is essentially about documenting procedure - otherwise called processes, tasks, and functions. So, it seems to me that TWs are needed most where there are function intensive products. Where more so than software? Biotechnology? Not on a large scale, unless you consider biotech software. Mechanical and electronic intensive products? Nope, mostly going to China.
Future trend in TWing: First, someone is going to, in concrete, specific terms, define what structured writing is (structured writing is currently the number one skill set of TWs that does not exist). Then, people are going to start using it.
Richard Lewis
Dave Till <dave -at- davetill -dot- com> wrote:
Hi, everybody. I was curious about future trends in technical writing
employment.
Recently, a career counsellor I was talking with suggested that the
future of technical writing would likely be in sectors other than the IT
sector. Do you agree with this? And, if you do, where do you see
technical writers being employed a few years down the road?
--Dave Till
dave -at- davetill -dot- com
www.davetill.com
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