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Technical Writer
Creates clear documentation for complex products — user manuals, API docs, help guides.
Did you know?
Aircraft manuals are often written in Simplified Technical English, which has about 900 approved words and limits instructions to 20 words.
How subjects help
- Literature: Write step by step instructions so clear that anyone can follow them the first time.
- Computer Science: Try out software yourself so you can explain exactly how its features work.
- Logic: Put steps in the right order and spot gaps where a reader could get stuck.
- Art & Design: Add diagrams and screenshots that show a process faster than words can.
A famous name
Ted Chiang: Worked as a technical writer in the software industry while writing award-winning science fiction.
Try it yourself: Report today's news
- Pick something that really happened today at home, school or outside.
- Answer: who, what, when, where and why?
- Write it as a five-sentence news story with the most important fact first.
- Ask someone who was there: did you get the facts right? Fix anything that was wrong.
Journalists check every fact, lead with what matters most, and correct mistakes openly.
Also try: Check three claims before you share them.
Known for it in
USA, Germany, India, UK, Canada