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Desperately Seeking Documentation?

Posted by Cliff on from the equally-good-with-pen-as-with-a-keyboard dept.

Interrobang asks: "I'm a longtime Slashdot reader, who isn't a programmer. I'm one of programmers' symbiotic (parasitic?) life-forms -- a freelance technical writer. I'd like to know from the programmers, IT managers, and similar others in the crowd: If you were searching the Internet for a technical writer, what kinds of search terms would you use? What sites would you check? Where and how would you start looking?"

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  1. How to get technical writing jobs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Post a query to "Ask Slashdot"
    2. Wait for the jobs to roll in
    3. Profit!

  2. If I were looking for a technical writer... by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I'd probably Google for "a life".

    But seriously, you want us to write your C.V. too?

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  3. Re:Find a tech writing 'guild' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hopefully you can find a guild that doesn't have unreasonable entry requirements.

  4. Put up posters on college campuses by dheltzel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since the CS students are outsourcing their coding to others, it's likely that lots of students will want to outsource their "documentation" as well. Can you do book reports and research papers as well?

  5. Re:First mistake by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought an Interrobang was where you had sex while speaking in nothing but questions.

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