Coming into the Workplace: What Every Technical Communicator Should Know—Besides Writing
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1995/PDFs/PG3839.PDF
Barker, Thomas, Rebecca A. Fuller, Deborah J. Rosenquist, John Schladen and Thea Teich
STC Proceedings
1995
Abstract:
Working successfully as a technical communicator involves a great deal more than a thorough knowledge of professional skills and capability in the craft. Working at
this kind of job means dealing with all sorts of people,
handling all sorts of assignments and dealing with all sorts
of corporate agendas and requirements that have seemingly
little to do with getting the project out the door. But
it’s all in a day’s work, and if you want to keep the job,
you’ve got to accept and actually operate within all of
those guidelines, strictures, rules (written and unwritten)
and mores that make up the corporate structure.
