| Unless "technical communication" is your professional or your field of research, you probably don't know the term. This site will give you some insight into what technical communicators do. And if you are a technical author, editor, or illustrator, you will find some useful resources and ideas. What is technical communication? Half art, half science, technical communication is much more than just writing software guides or maintenance manuals. What does it take to become a technical author? You need more than just brains or beauty. You'll need some special qualities that they don't tell you about when you start in this business. Something for the business card. We all seem to need a job title. Technical communicator? Technical author? Information designer? Why are people using different titles for essentially the same role? If nobody reads the manual, why are bookshops overflowing with computing books? This article suggests some explanations for this phenomenon. In search of quality. "Quality" means different things to different people. What issues effect the quality of printed and online technical publications? |
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