Some Common Career Titles for Technical Writers and Communicators
If you’re a junior technical writer just graduated from college and looking for a job in the market place, it’d help to be aware of all the titles that technical communicators carry today. That way you can expand your job search to include all these titles, and not only those of “technical writer” and “technical…
Read MoreFree Articles on Localization and Translating Technical Documents
Here are some free articles about various aspects of technical document translation and localization, courtesy of Global Vision International, Inc. Thou Shall Have Free and Transparent TMS: Client Side News Article Does Your Product “Speak” Your Client’s Language? Is the World Wide Web Really Worldwide? Localize Your Product To Globalize Your Business To Localize Or…
Read MoreTechnical Writing is NOT "Creative Writing"
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Technical writing fails when it tries to become “fine writing” or “creative writing.” Why? Because one of the main tools of “fine writing” is attributing human-like qualities to non-human actors and agents. That’s a definite taboo in technical documentation. (“Anthropomorphizing” is the $100-word that says the same thing.) For example you…
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How to Break into Technical Writing – 4 Questions & Answers
How to break into technical writing is always a hot question with multiple answers. A reader who has just received his Bachelor’s degree (congrats!) sent the following letter the other day: “I would like to break into the technical writing/communication field, though I have some questions:1) What should I have as an entry-level technical writer?…
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