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Skill #22: Using Your Detective Skills as a Technical Writer

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As technical writers, we often wear many different hats within an organization: we write documentation that teaches people how to use a product; we test new features to ensure they’re working properly; we write marketing copy that encourages people to research a product.

But, as you’ll learn in this episode, we wear another hat that perhaps haven’t considered but is essential to the technical writers’ skill set: the detective hat.

That’s why, in this episode, I have Jamie Roddy on the podcast: Manager of Technical Communicators who leads a team of global technical communicators who, from her love of detective shows, has found that the detective and the technical writer have a lot alike.

In this episode, Jamie shares how you can use your detective skills as a technical writer, including:

  • which detective skills are most useful for technical writers
  • how to ramp up those skills
  • how detective skills can help you transition into other fields within a software company

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As technical writers, we often wear many different hats within an organization: we write documentation that teaches people how to use a product; we test new features to ensure they’re working properly; we write marketing copy that encourages people to research a product.

But, as you’ll learn in this episode, we wear another hat that perhaps haven’t considered but is essential to the technical writers’ skill set: the detective hat.

That’s why, in this episode, I have Jamie Roddy on the podcast: Manager of Technical Communicators who leads a team of global technical communicators who, from her love of detective shows, has found that the detective and the technical writer have a lot alike.

In this episode, Jamie shares how you can use your detective skills as a technical writer, including:

  • which detective skills are most useful for technical writers
  • how to ramp up those skills
  • how detective skills can help you transition into other fields within a software company

Show Notes:

  continue reading

57 episodes

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