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what's a technical writer? wouldn't people actually working in whatever field write up the technical details?
People who work in technical fields tend not to be able to spell.
People who work in technical fields tend not to be able to spell.
This. Plus most of ours are German or Indian. Plus we have several hundred pages of standards and guidelines that have to be applied to our documentation, it's practically a full-time job just knowing and applying them without having to do all the programming on top of it.People who work in technical fields tend not to be able to spell.
depends how high up you are. if your floor staff who's probably getting a pay cut, no probs, if you chaired the meeting that 100% mortgages were introduced in, then i hate you.
This. Plus most of ours are German or Indian. Plus we have several hundred pages of standards and guidelines that have to be applied to our documentation, it's practically a full-time job just knowing and applying them without having to do all the programming on top of it.
There's a "where do you put the comma" type test that you have to do before even getting an interview as a technical writer with us, and well over half of native English speakers who do it fail it.
edit: and that's before you even get into the structuring of information that minka mentioned.
it's less the spelling, more the ... explaining ability. experts might understand the stuff but they frequently can't tell anybody else about it without getting bogged down in unnecessary details, leaving out vital information, providing the information in a sort of random order ("oh, yeah, and another thing, er, actually you maybe needed to know that before that thing, did i mention that thing?"), etc.
i think of myself as a professional explainer of things and/or asker of pertinent questions...
(and i do also train technical people to write their own damn docs)
Close enough. I bet they can't sync their framework DCs in hell eitherYou're working for Satan, aren't you?
You're speaking in tonguesClose enough. I bet they can't sync their framework DCs in hell either
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