Technical Writer
"Technical writers write, edit, and prepare publications in many fields of technology, science, engineering, and medicine, including articles for technical and science journals. The publications may be technical reports, instruction manuals, articles, papers proposals, brochures, and booklets, and even speeches for technical meetings and conferences.
[Technical writers] must remain objective and factual with the assigned subject matter. The sole function of a technical writer is to deal dispassionately with facts and objects and to relate useful, relevant, reliable information so the audience can understand it.
Any writing requiring familiarity with a technical field is considered technical writing. Writing about museum conservation is just as technical as writing a user manual for a sorftware product or a troubleshooting guide for a broken tractor."
There are practically an infinite number of jobs available for anyone interested in tecnical writing. Options include working with the technical press, promotional writing, technical advertising, news releases, public relations, instruction manuals, proposals, research and development, government sponsored activities, trade journals and house organizations, special projects, technical reports, audio visual scriptwriting, technical translation, document coordination, technical editing, and the list could go on. As you can see, the job opportunities for tech writers are endless.
Eva Fowler