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- From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Technical Writing...need advice
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- Date: 8 Oct 92 13:28:00 GMT
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- In article <BvrBwv.HGw@unx.sas.com>, saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes...
- >
- >In article <Bvpw5G.IJ@acsu.buffalo.edu>, oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
- >|> I've been reading the responses about Technical Writing and hope
- >|> more technical writers will respond and give me advice on how to
- >|> get started. I may wish to be self-employed for awhile, but
- >|> would like to hear about contract agreements, and how to land a
- >|> full-time job too.
- >|>
- >
- >You may want to review some literature, or take some coursework, in
- >technical communication. It's a good deal different than what they teach
- >you in English Literature. There's an entire set of principles,
- >practices, theories, techniques, and rules you need to know about to be
- >a good technical writer. At the very least, before you solicit contract
- >work or apply for jobs, you should be able to articulate whether a
- >particular piece of technical writing is good, and then clearly outline
- >the reasons why or why not. That's fair, isn't it?
- >
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- Thanks for your comments. Can you recommend any books that deal
- with techniques of technical writing?
-
- - Peggy -
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