| Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
| I apologize in advance if I am overstepping bounderies by placing this job posting: | I apologize in advance if I am overstepping bounderies by placing this job posting: | ||
| − | One of our clients, a branding agency is looking for a technical writer, business, functional analyst to fill a permanent position. Below please find the needed qualifications | ||
| − | If you are interested please email us your resume and let us know your salary requirement | ||
| − | if not but know someone who might be please don't hesitate to refer them | ||
| − | thank you | ||
| − | Nicole@theprofessionals-nyc.com | ||
| − | www.theprofessionals-nyc.com | ||
| − | Qualifications | + | I thought you were to put it mildy so I deleted it. I apologize in advance if anyone thinks I am overstepping bounderies by doing so. |
| − | 3-4 years relevant experience in the digital space, working in web and software development | ||
| − | 1-2 years previous experience in a technical writer or technical project manager role | ||
| − | BA degree required | ||
| − | Experience in writing use case scenarios and user requirements documentation | ||
| − | Experience in using UML to illustrate user journeys and site flow | ||
| − | Experience in client interaction is a plus | ||
| − | Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain technical ideas in simple languages | ||
| − | The ability to interact professionally with a diverse group | ||
| − | Must be completely fluent in Adobe Creative Suite products(InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop) and Microsoft Office (including Visio) | ||
| − | Must be a hands-on team player who is willing to do what it takes to get a job done. | ||
| − | Must be a strategic thinker and creative problem solver who can describe solutions clearly to those with differing levels of technology background | ||
| − | Light travel (10-20%) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/216.214.164.124|216.214.164.124]] ([[User talk:216.214.164.124|talk]]) 20:44, 26 October 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | ||
Latest revision as of 19:11, 10 May 2012
| ||||||||||||||
|
Contents |
[edit] Article on technical communication
Hmmmm. There is no article on Technical communication (it's a redirect to this page), which is what the STC focuses on. The role of Technical communication/a Technical communicator is a superset of Technical writing/a Technical writer...—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 04:28, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Technical writing vs. professional writing
So what's the difference between "technical writing" and "professional writing"? I've seen professional writing talked about, but I don't really know what it is. -- Creidieki 21:36, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
- A professional writer is one who gets paid for writing. Could be technical writing, travel writing, fiction writing, whatever. Most technical writers are professional writers--even though I do it and enjoy it, I can't imagine anyone doing it only for fun (compared to, say, many unpublished fiction writers). Elf | Talk 04:16, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Link to techwriter.com
I have removed the links to techwriter.com because this site specifically promotes a particular commercial organisation and appears to contain little general information about technical writing per se. If there is such info somewhere on the site then any new link should be directly to that information. -IMOɲ.
[edit] Grammar changes
I changed this: Technical writers are responsible for creating media that are helpful, accurate, comprehensible, and accessible to the intended audience.
To this: Technical writers are responsible for creating media that is helpful, accurate, comprehensible, and accessible to the intended audience. AuroraMae 03:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The latter is correct: since "media" describes a single object, it isn't grammatically appropriate to use "are" to describe it -- even if plurality is assumed. And yes, I realize the irony in affirming a corrected "correction" on the edit side of a Technical writer page when concision is paramount.
- Actually - not to be too pedantic - media is the plural of medium and does not describe a single object. It covers more than one avenue of communications and should therefore be used as you would use the word data (the plural of datum). The correct usage is "data are..." and so the correct usage is "media are...".
- Examples of different media include print publishing, display-based offline publishing such as CD-ROM and DVD-ROM-based information resources, online publishing such as "help" files, intranets, extranets, "traditional" Web pages including forms, wikis, interactive PDF forms, CBT/interactive video, PDAs, even production approaches such as single-sourcing wherein a single source document may be required to appear in several different media and so must be written exceptionally carefully, and so on. Even writing for content management systems requires skills that differ from those used for print publishing, for example.
- However, this article has been hacked about so badly by some pretty clumsy and inconsistent editing that IMHO it's probably not worth the hassle involved in fixing all the errors that have been introduced (no matter how well-meant). AncientBrit (talk) 18:57, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Creating separate articles for 'Technical Writer' and 'Technical Writing'
What does everyone think about creating a separate page for techical writer and technical writing? The whole 'technical communication'section should have a different title, as a new article is going to be created for that subject. If no one objects, I'm going to change the header and split the articles. AuroraMae 03:23, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I made some changes: I changed 'technical communication' to 'qualifications' and reorganized. I also added a 'methodology' sub-header. The article still needs work, but now its organized better and makes more sense as an article about technical writers.AuroraMae 03:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I think its best to have a separate product page from the skill page in all professions. Often the end user of the product doesn't (or need not) care about the skill required to produce the product. Likewise, staffing professionals and customers of the skill don't care about (or are overwhelmed by) the critical details of the product, which is why they must hire someone with the skill. I added user guides and documentations as the product pages. Oicumayberight 08:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I split the articles; technical writer is its own entity now, as is technical writing.AuroraMae 14:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- Good idea. The last version basically defined a technical writer as the guy responsible for upkeep of documentation. That confuses the work product with the work. "A scientist is responsible for keeping up the supply of fresh scientific papers..." SBHarris 18:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Linked articles
Ideas about Structured writing might be welcome. Also I am a bit surprised (as a technical writer that uses and implements DocBook) to see only a link to DITA. DITA has a clear and bright future in technical documention, but is not so representative of the present situation and needs of many companies that involve technical writers. Just my thought. Franciszek (talk) 09:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Citations
Why are there so few citations? One would think that in an article of this nature there would be tons of them - there is no shortage of literature on the subject. Blue Luger (talk) 17:33, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
[edit] possibilities
I apologize in advance if I am overstepping bounderies by placing this job posting:
I thought you were to put it mildy so I deleted it. I apologize in advance if anyone thinks I am overstepping bounderies by doing so.
Bogomolov.PL 11 May, 2012
-
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Technical_writer&diff=491855156&oldid=457548302
--
Manage subscription | Powered by rssforward.com
