Design knowledge required for Technical Writers
Technical Writers produce end user documents, manuals, process documents e,t,c Technical Writers require good English knowledge and writing capabilities. Along with those capabilities technical writers require some amount of design knowledge . Some times in the technical document, writers should include some graphics such as Design Flow diagram Process Flow diagram Screen shots of the application Electrical and Electronic circuits diagram Cover Page diagrams To draw these diagrams technical writer should know some concepts of graphic design tools. Some of the companies looking graphic design tool knowledge are Photoshop Snagit Visio Photoshop : Using photoshop, technical writes can design cover pages or they can create flyers kind of documents. If Technical writers have this knowledge, it will be added advantage and also in salary discussion they get more weightage. Using Photoshop they can deliver cover pages, Also to edit the captured images and to resize the images Snagit...