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Tuesday, 14 January 2003

Posted on 14:16 by Unknown

What is Technical Communication?



It's the process of gathering information from experts and presenting it to an audience in a clear, easily understandable form.

These "experts" can be engineers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, or anyone else with a special knowledge of a certain field of study. Technical communicators gather knowledge from these experts by conducting interviews and reading previously published material. Read more at the STC website

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