Week Two, Post One

After reading the four different perspectives on technical writing, I found that the one titled as STC's "A Career in Technical Writing" focused more on what technical writing is and what types of jobs you can get. I felt that the article titled U.S. Department of Labor focused more on what the different types of writers are, what types of conditions these writers work in and what then use on a daily basis, what types of training and qualifications are needed, and finally what the job market is like for writers and the amount that they are paid. What is Technical Communication looks at defining this issue and what people in this type of area do. Lastly, the article on Improving your technical writing looks at ways to make you a more effective writer and gives advise as simple as writing clearly in conversational style. Each of these different articles did touch on the jobs that technical writing is used for. These different jobs range from writing a manual for a type of electronic to filling out information about medical research. I enjoyed readying the article about improving your technical writing because I felt that the advise given was extremely useful, not only in writing, but also in every day life. I found in the article by the U.S. Department of Labor, that "medical writers prepare a range of formal documents presenting detailed information on the physical or medical sciences". This applies to what I will be doing with pharmaceutical sales, in that I will have to write reports on how the doctors feel their patients are responding to the new medication. In the article that talks about what is technical communication, it informs you more about the different areas that it can be applied, so I did not find this article to be very helpful to my field of work. I think that in the end all of these articles were very informative about all the issues in technical writing.