Now, as you complete your graduation or master graduation, you might be looking at different professions in the industry. Maybe, some of you might have taken writing as a hobby and would like to make this hobby as your profession.

Writing in simple terms refers to an effective way of presenting information that follows complete standards of grammar and style. A group of words make a sentence. With complete hold on the parts of speech and english grammar, you can easily arrive at a good sentence or a paragraph. Then, what does technical writing mean?

Technical Writing refers to writing technical information in a clear, easily understandable way that follows all standards, styles and formatting rules. Technical writing projects include producing user manuals, troubleshooting guide, project specifications, online help, writing for web, online documentation, api documentation, etc. These projects have started growing day to day in all corporate organizations. It has become a necessity to have documentation being produced by the organization as it is a definite requirement for the company to deliver this to their customers / clients. When we look at documentation as a whole, different kind of projects/work have started to begin within these corporate organizations. Information is crucial for every organization. The amount of research, knowledge exchange, key innovations, etc need to gathered, accumulated and managed in knowledge repositories. This has lead to information management and data management teams. Enterprise content management is gaining huge importance. Technical writers are diversified in their roles possessing good knowledge of all these sources that belong to the single umbrella known as documentation. They have been well adjusted to handling multiple roles in corporate organizations.

A technical writer need to have good command over english grammar and should possess good writing skills. Graphics skills, tools knowledge, domain knowledge, communication skills are the other prerequisites to become a technical writer.

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