Technical Writing's Big Secret
http://www.hightechwriting.com/big_secret.html

Plamondon, Robert
High-Tech Technical Writing
2008

Abstract:

The big secret in technical writing is that most of the harder documents aren't written by the technical writers at all. In fact, many "technical writers" never do any writing at all. Instead, the drafts are written by engineers or marketers. The technical writers perform editorial functions and provide publications services -- copy-editing, layout, review management, and so on.