How Can I Become a Successful Technical Writer?
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Johnson, Tom H.
I'd Rather Be Writing
2008

Abstract:

The best thing you can do to develop your skills and ability with technical writing is to actually do some technical writing. Find an open source project, such as WordPress.org or Pligg, and write some documentation for it. Most open source projects have poor documentation, so they provide excellent opportunities.