Technical Author do?
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What does a Technical Author do? |
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What does a technical author do?
The work of a technical author The most important person: the reader What should you look for in a technical author? When should you call in the technical author? Why do you need a technical author? What does a technical author need? What if you can't afford a technical author? |
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That's a question I'm often asked whenever I have to enter my occupation on a form. More importantly, clients and agencies often ask this question in one way or other. This document is for you, if you are likely to recruit a technical author, or to commission work from one. A technical author produces information on technical subjects. This information can be many different kinds of things, for example:
The output may be in various forms:
It may be for:
I am using the term "technical author" in a wide sense, so some people who come under this description may have different job titles. The important thing, which I hope to bring out in this document, is that the actual production of the deliverable copy is usually only a small, though essential, part of a technical author's work. This is a personal view, so not all my colleagues will see everything the way I describe it here. I am writing from the point of view of a contract technical author, so writers of books for a mass audience and employees in large or small documentation departments may have different ideas on some points. |
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Copyright © 1999-2002 Richard Burnham
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