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<title>New Roles for Technical Writers: Technical Marketing Communication</title>
<shortdesc>Technical software marketing is a specialty that calls upon skills technical writers already possess. Clear, accurate&#xD;product information is essential in today’s complex market;&#xD;decision-makers need to know how your software will fulfill&#xD;their business needs. In making the shift from&#xD;documentation to marketing writing, it is necessary to&#xD;broaden your sense of the writing’s purposes, and prepare&#xD;for different ways of working with your material. However,&#xD;many key aspects of the two specialities are the same, such&#xD;as the need to uphold a consistent, well-defined tone and&#xD;organization, and above all to strive for consistency and&#xD;clarity.</shortdesc>
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<p>Technical software marketing is a specialty that calls upon skills technical writers already possess. Clear, accurate&#xD;product information is essential in today’s complex market;&#xD;decision-makers need to know how your software will fulfill&#xD;their business needs. In making the shift from&#xD;documentation to marketing writing, it is necessary to&#xD;broaden your sense of the writing’s purposes, and prepare&#xD;for different ways of working with your material. However,&#xD;many key aspects of the two specialities are the same, such&#xD;as the need to uphold a consistent, well-defined tone and&#xD;organization, and above all to strive for consistency and&#xD;clarity.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Careers/TC/Marketing/Software">All works in 'Careers &gt; TC &gt; Marketing &gt; Software'</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Careers">All works in 'Careers'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/TC">'TC'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Marketing">'Marketing'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Software">'Software'</a></li>
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