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Subject:RE: First days and weeks on the tech writing job From:Erika Yanovich <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com> To:Nina Rogers <janina -dot- rogers -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:49:42 +0000
We have a more formal approach, with a training plan that includes various topics, totaling about 10 hours net of training. The topics include: intro of department, deliverables, products, lifecycle issues (guidelines), infrastructure (servers, sites, methodology), tools and pointers to additional training. After that, the writer is asked to read the 2 most important guidelines. Then, the new writer is assigned a small, real task, assisted by the team leader. The tasks become more complex and the supervision looser, as times goes by.
HTH,
Erika
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