How technical writers write: a survey of strategies and attitudes

To investigate a number of questions connected with how technical writers write, the authors conducted a survey of professional technical writers. The questions asked include the following: Will the same strategies and attitudes that will produce, for example, a good term paper produce a good technical manual? Is advice to the academic writer applicable to the writer in the industrial forum? Results indicate that most of the respondents feel they use powerful strategies rather than weak.<
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