Comparing readings

I see technical writing for my job as was in the power point slides. It is taking infomation and making it into usable context. We taking information and shape it into a document(s) that can be used by everyone.

In the What is Communication article I liked the point the author made about communication neing technical, news media or interpersonal. In my job most of my commnications are technical on a day to day basis. But.....I am a nurse and used to have direct patient contact every day and used interpersonal communications. That is taught to us in the very first nursing class that we take. I also liked the point that the goal of communication is the acceptance of the sender's message by the receiver. And this to me could be in any form of communication.

TC@MTU was another site/article that was posted to read. I really liked it better than the information from U.S. Dpeartment of Labor. The web site ws very informative for me telling me exactally what it that technical communicators do. It is scientific, technical and practical knowldege all rolled into one. I did find the salaries from 2002 interesting. I had no idea that a technical writer could make so much money per year. I did like to comparison of technical writers and science and medical writers. I wonder if they could combine these and make it a scientific technical writer. Someone needs to make science easier to read and understand.