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November 9, 2009
Do I need more than a B.A. in English to handle a technical writing position at an engineering firm?
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Also, do you enjoy the field of technical writing?
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All you really need is a technical writing course on your transcript. You don’t need a B.A. in English, but that helps a lot,
I enjoyed doing the research for my master’s thesis more than I enjoyed the actual writing of it, but I enjoyed that too. When one of the members of my thesis committee said that my thesis was well-written and not overly technical was almost as big a compliment as actually graduating more than three months later. It takes time to put those library copies of your thesis together. An exercise in word calibration.
I don’t believe a BA in English does much for a person who is a technical writer.
A good technical writer gathers the facts, organizes them in a logical fashion and makes them understandable by keeping the English simple and straight forward. All of these things can be done by just about any engineer who puts their mind to it.
As with any job the technical writer needs to enjoy what they are doing.
I think you need a technical background and a flare in presentation.