tailieunhanh - Opportunities in technical writing careers part 12

Any writing that requires familiarity with (or willingness to learn about) a technical field would be considered technical writing. Writing about museum conservation is technical writing as much as writing user manuals for a software product or a troubleshoot¬ing guide for a broken tractor. | Employers of Technical Writers 101 with more than eight hundred federal state and local government agencies to provide science and technology in the areas of national security homeland defense health and life sciences energy transportation and environment. Given all of these activities you can see that the scope of activity for a technical writer associated with Battelle is almost endless. Many universities also have large research organizations that are heavily dependent on government contracts. One is the University of Dayton Research Institute another is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory affiliated with the University of California. Government Agencies Government units employing technical writers usually fall into two categories federal and state or provincial groups that use technical writers for their own work and agencies that work closely with companies and industries. The governments of both the United States and Canada maintain websites through which you can search for and apply for federal jobs. A quick search of the . site shows that at this time positions for technical writers and editors are available with the Department of Agriculture the National Archives and Records Administration the Federal Reserve System the National Institutes of Health and the Air Force Personnel Center to name just a few. The Canadian site shows availabilities with Defence Construction Parks Canada and the National Research Council. In general technical writing jobs for the federal government are classified as those that provide internal communications and those that deal with external contacts. Writers working on internal communications can be described as follows. 102 Opportunities in Technical Writing Careers Public information specialist. This category includes writers who not only collect information about the many activities of the commission but who also write and disseminate information about the many programs available in