The Personal Narrative of a Technical Writer
http://www.stfx.ca/academic/english/Careers/technical.html

Currie, John
St. Francis Xavier
1999

Abstract:

When I graduated with an Honours degree in English from St. F.X., I had no idea that I would find work as a freelance technical writer; in fact, I had next to no idea at the time what technical writing was. In short, a technical writer produces the literature of engineering, technology, software, and systems development.