Good morning,
I have a speaking engagement at the local community college on Monday
night with a group of students interested in technical writing. I have
plans to tell them how I got started in technical writing, show them
the interactive 3D documentation I'm working on, and of course, tell
them
> * If you had heard a speaker like this in college, what
> would you have liked to know about the career?
Well, in college, to be honest, I would have liked to know how much
money the person made.
I don't think there's anything wrong with coming prepared with a range
of salaries/geographic ar
I recently sat on a panel of professionals with English and communications
degrees at my alma mater. We had a magazine editor, a newspaper reporter
turned layout designer, a corporate trainer, and a tech writer (me!).
The students that attended our session were most interested in what they
could d
Good evening, Lisa,
One place to start looking at the salary aspect is the recent WritersUA
Salary Survey. Please see the link below.
http://www.writersua.com/surveys/salary06/index.html
I'm sure there are other sources, but this one came to mind first. Hope this
helps,
Kind regards,
Frank M.
Questions:
Q: What is a technical writer?
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writing
Q: What does a technical writer do?
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writing#Deliverables
http://en.wik
Cannot address your second and third questions. But,
* If you had heard a speaker like this in college, what would you
have liked to know about the career?
My response: 1 compensation, generally, 2 prospects for the industry as the
economy expands, 3 possible career paths, 4 how to start to get
That's an interesting point, Jim! I certainly know why this career is
satisfying to me (independent work, variety, challenging, love
explaining things and helping people do their jobs better). What do
others find satistying about Technical Writing as a career?
On 11/16/06, technical writing plus
Hi Lisa,
I would encourage you to also bring in hard-copy examples in addition to
your interactive 3D documentation so the students don't get the idea
that everything is as quite as flashy as what you're working on. They
may find it disappointing if they choose tech writing as a career and
find th
Lisa: The first thing you should tell them is:
"I am not the inspiration for Tina the Tech Writer."
It should be all downhill from there.
CoC
--- "Lisa M. Bronson (TCP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I have a speaking engagement at the local community
> college on Monday
> n
It might be useful to have the U.S. BLS - that's Bureau of Labor Statistics-
Occupational Outlook page on writers handy. They do talk about technical
writers (though not so much this year as in the past). Here's an excerpt:
" Opportunities should be best for technical writers and those wi
> That's an interesting point, Jim! I certainly know why this career is
> satisfying to me (independent work, variety, challenging, love
> explaining things and helping people do their jobs better). What do
> others find satistying about Technical Writing as a career?
Primarily the variety. I lov
Learning something new every day...
JWH
-- Original message --
From: "Jones, Donna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Originally said by
> > That's an interesting point, Jim! I certainly know why this career is
> > satisfying to me (independent work, variety, challengin
I guess I would have liked to know how versatile tech writing can be. I took
a tech writing course in college to fulfill a requirement for a journalism
minor, but I had no idea what tech writing could apply to before I took the
class. I figured it was strictly writing for scientific things that I h
> That's an interesting point, Jim! I certainly know why this
> career is satisfying to me (independent work, variety,
> challenging, love explaining things and helping people do
> their jobs better). What do others find satistying about
> Technical Writing as a career?
>
I love the opportun
Opening line:
Good morning... how many of you have ever read the manual to your iPOD
or stereo system? How many of you eventually went the manual when you
couldn't figure something out?
-Carla
"When all else fails, read the manual."
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Are you a
This is similar to what I do before each tech. writing course we give
here. We run orientation sessions for people who are interested. Someone
usually asks if tech. writing isn't the most boring job...or something
like that.
So what I usually do is bring some hi tech thing in...or even a pictur
The fame and fortune. I'd otherwise be unable to afford vacation homes
in The Hamptons and St. Croix.
;-)
On 11/16/06, Lisa M. Bronson (TCP) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's an interesting point, Jim! I certainly know why this career is
> satisfying to me (independent work, variety, challengin
Find out what their core requirement classes are and find out what
programs they use. I took some technical writing classes at Louisiana
Tech during my Master's, and MS Office was about the only software I
saw. You may want to warn them about Help Authoring Tools, tell them
that knowledge of code
On Thursday, November 16, 2006, Lisa M. Bronson (TCP) wrote:
> What do others find satistying about Technical Writing as a career?
* I am always learning something new.
* I'm one of the first to get the "new toys" out of engineering :) (and
it's *so* fun to break things!)
* What we do is
> > What do others find satistying about
> > Technical Writing as a career?
I make $100,000.00 sitting on my butt.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never
actually known what the question is."
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Lisa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) asked: What do others find satistying about Technical
Writing as a career?
I'd like to quote part of my results from the Clifton StrengthsFinder test
because I feel it accurate depicts what thrills me about being a Tech Writer.
According to the CSF, my top three stre
> -John Posada wrote:-
> > > What do others find satistying about
> > > Technical Writing as a career?
>
> I make $100,000.00 sitting on my butt.
LOL!!! I can't say that I make anywhere near as much as John, but I have
to admit that I'm fairly happy with my salary. One of my nephews
rece
Greetings, All:
Glad to make your acquaintance (electronically).
I'm new to this list. I've been a "lurking" member of the TechWrtr-L
for @ five months.
I've been a technical writer for nine years; prior to this most recent
career change, I've worked as an environmental, health and safety
pr
I was a member of the student chapter of STC while in college. About a year
after I graduated, I was asked back by the chapter to give a presentation on
the "first year" in the tech writing industry.
I covered the following basic areas:
- My background (how I got into techwriting)
- Making the tr
I hadn't seen that done before. The second Wikipedia link below includes
a link to a commercial site's discussion of "Tech Writing 2.0," which
then leads (surprise!) to an offer to buy the full report for $89. Very
smooth.
Some vendors get their advertising for free...
> -Original Message
Carla, that is a great idea. As I read your post, I thought of a way Lisa
could expand on your idea: start by asking the students to list (write the
responses on a whiteboard) all the product manuals they've seen, or places
they've seen user instructions. This could go on for 3-5 minutes, if you l
--- "Jones, Donna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -John Posada wrote:-
> > > > What do others find satistying about
> > > > Technical Writing as a career?
> >
> > I make $100,000.00 sitting on my butt.
>
>
> LOL!!! I can't say that I make anywhere near as much
> as John, but I have to
Nice to see that the "technical writing" article has been removed from
Wikipedia, with the following explanation:
Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about
yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles written
as part of a marketing or promotional campaign
Bob, I just tried again, and the article's still there, including the
advertising link...
> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Stromberg
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:44 PM
> To: tcp@techcommpros.com
> Subject: [TCP] Fwd: Marketing tech writing tools through Wikipedia
>
> Nice to s
Yep -- CTRL+F5, cleared the cache, tried a different browser app, etc.
Still there.
> -Original Message-
> From: Dana Worley
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:13 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Subject: Re: [TCP] Fwd: Marketing tech writing tools through Wikipedia
>
> Did you do a "refresh
Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Yep -- CTRL+F5, cleared the cache, tried a different browser app, etc.
>
> Still there.
It probably takes a little time for Wikipedia to propagate the change
through all of its servers' caches...
-Andrew
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I missed who was advertising there.
Bonnie Granat
617-319-7461
http://www.GranatEdit.com
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