What does a Technical Author Do?

by wisewords at 20:35 28/01/03 (Seminar>Consultant)

This article describes briefly the type of work undertaken by a freelance technical author/technical writer, how the work is carried out and what sort of resources the technical author requires.

Experiencing the cultural gap between technical authors and other technical people and management, I wrote this document, which has been widely circulated and is on the reading lists of at least two universities offering technical writing courses. The text is available at: http://www.wisewordsco.com/techauth.html -- Richard Burnham (wisewords)

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