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Re: Hello( TWIN)

From: Dolly Chitkara <dolly.chitkara@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2008 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Hello( TWIN)
To: Saryu Minglani <saryuminglani@gmail.com>

Author:  Doll(y) Chitkara

A Tech Writer-A Tech Savvy ? 

What is Technical Writing?

Michael H. Markel, Director of Technical Communication, Boise State University defines

“Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose…The words and graphics of technical writing are meant to be practical: that is, to communicate a body of factual information that will help an audience understand a subject or carry out a task.”

It is evident from the above definition that a Technical Writer is different from a Content author and he/she requires working on topics that are technical in nature. A technical writer requires a thorough understanding of technical subject to be able to grasp and then document it for the targeted audiences.

Understanding and Justifying the Product

Any individual belonging to non-technical background will seldom be able to grasp the product as is created from an engineer’s eye. While a techie would not just grasp but also with his genuine technical bent justify the facilities in best possible manner to the audiences too.

Documenting the Most Technical Style

While conveying a technical information, a technical writer uses various presentational styles to convey information in precise manner. These involve the following:

• Structure a technical paper.
• Properly integrate flow charts, data dictionaries and plots into a technical paper.
• Properly integrate figures into technical papers.
• Properly integrate equations into a technical paper.

All this and more is added to technical document and is attained only by individual with Technical Heart and Soul.

For Self Up-gradation

Even thorough searching and navigating through Internet links to keep oneself abreast with the latest technology requires a fairly good technical know-how. For a non-tech searching Internet is as bad as being wandering in the lost world.

To Conclude

As apparently obvious to all the readers by now, author who is also in the same profile for few years now, strongly feels that a TW better be genuinely technical to suit the profile.