Tinker, Tailor, Technical Communicator

Abstract

Technical communicators—both writers and editors—should know their inherent abilities, and how these abilities interface with related occupations. Publications supervisors and managers can also benefit from this knowledge by applying it to improve their units' functional efficiency. By using the Job and Talent Matrix—occupation blocks fitted into a lattice of aptitudes—we can define the general attributes of technical writers/editors, and establish their interrelationships with people from associated professions such as engineers.