![]() ![]() We’ve been hearing talk for a while about the changing face of journalism, but technical writing isn’t going anywhere. Here are some of the things I’ve learned about this market: And new types of projects became open to me: editing a PowerPoint slide, writing catchy marketing copy and performing quality assurance on a completed course. And although I still have plenty to learn, I’m now twice as fast at completing an assignment than I was when I started. And I was asked to do another project-one that made the difficulty of my first akin to something called “How to Zip Up Your Fly: A Post-Urination Guide.”īut the more I familiarized myself with the industry jargon, the more this type of writing started to feel natural. ![]() When I finally finished it, I got paid promptly. I cleared out my schedule and locked myself in my office for an entire weekend. ![]() I jumped at the opportunity-and got the job.That first project was hard. Then one day I saw a job posting that told me the company was looking for a full-time writer. A few days later I was given an assignment, for which I would be paid more money than I’d earned in the last six months. My hope was to show them I could at least do research and put words into grammatically acceptable sentences. So I just did my own thing I wrote a marketing blurb about the company, based on its website content and whatever else I could find online. When I read the instructions, I didn’t understand half the words onscreen, let alone what I was supposed to do with them. When applying for the job, I was asked to complete a “writing assessment” that all contractors are required to take to determine their skill level. ![]()
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