Transitioning from Literary Studies to Technical Communication
http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2008/11/20/transitioning-from-literary-studies-to-technical-communication/

Johnson, Tom H.
I'd Rather Be Writing
2008

Abstract:

A 250 page manual for a complicated product may be more difficult to write than a master’s thesis. It may require a massive amount of deductive and inductive logic, as you try to figure out how the product works. You may spend months interviewing subject matter experts, asking them hundreds of questions about how the product functions, and then hundreds more to clarify their cryptic answers.