What Is Technical Communication?
Here are some links to web resources and references to printed publications that you can use to explore the idea and profession of technical communication. Also, take a look at employment opportunities in technical communication.
- Technical Writing As a Career. Written by Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology, this essay provides an overview of technical writing as a profession.
- What Is Technical Communication? A fine discusson of who they are, where they work, what functions they perform, who are their clients, and more. Provided by Charles P. Campbell at New Mexico Tech.
- Ivory Tower or Real World? Article published in Writer's Block(winter 1997-1998) by John Thurston, PhD, discussing his move from the"humanist milieu" into the world of technology, his abandonment of academiato become a technical writer.
- Careers in Techcomm. From the Technical Communication program at Cal Poly, this site provides a good discussion of the wide variety of technical communication fields.
- Technical Writing as a Career. An article by Garret Romaine, technical publications manager at RadiSys Corporation and current president of the Willamette Valley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.
- Advice to Technical Writers. A long rambling but endearing discussion from Ray Tracing News.
- Technical Writing: The Overlooked High-Tech Career. Article by Douglas J. Nakakihara in MicroTimes.
- Technical Communication Question & Answer Desk. Post a question to this bulletin board, provided by the University of Minnesota, Department of Rhetoric.
- Technical Writers to the Rescue! A listing of technical-writing consultants' profiles maintained by Nina Panzica of Masterpiece Media. Take a look at what technical writers do and what skills they have.
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