1. A Technical Writer: Roles and Characteristics By: The ChocoNehds

2. What is a Technical Writer? is a professional writer who engages in technical writing and produces technical documents for technical, business, and consumer audiences.

3. What are the characteristics of a good Technical Writer? A technical writer…  has the ability to understand complex technical concepts.  has a good vocabulary.  knows how to produce a document with no spelling errors.  is Organized.

4. A good technical writer…  is Meticulous  is Humble  has the love for writing

5. The Roles of a Technical Writer  write formal documents  some freelance technical writers write online for websites  provide writing, editing and design support.  produce write-ups  write for companies and /or websites

6. How Kurt Vonnegut described technical writers… “Technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writing. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to the reader.”