How did Dr. Fox work as a technical communicator in the workplace outside academia?
More than twenty years ago or in 1987 to be more exact, I was fresh out of a Master’s program in technical writing on my first job. I worked at Systematics which was a financial software company. I was assigned to organize other writers and myself to prepare documentation for an assets management product in new development. As in the product we were asked to document did not yet exist and would remain fluid through much of our project. To add insult to injury the product was inextricably linked with a new systems architecture in development, as well as with a new transactions system in development. Again, I was working with four teams of writers, computer programmers, and marketing personnel writing about three software programs that did not yet exist and which were guaranteed to change almost daily for a year. I remember sitting in my cubicle that first week amidst a literal sea of a hundred other cubicles thinking, “I don’t know how to do this job.” I knew how to prepare computer doc
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