| Date posted: |
Monday August 9, 2010 |
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| Company: |
Techwriters |
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| Job title: |
Technical Writer for Industrial Design Software Directions |
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| Job location: |
Sunnyvale, CA 94085 |
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| Contract or staff: |
Contract |
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| Pay: |
$42./hr./W2; $48/hr./1099 |
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| On site of off site: |
On site |
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| Travel: |
No |
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| Degree: |
B.A., B.S., M.E., Technical Writing |
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| Major: |
Industrial Design, Technical Writing, English |
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| Skills, experience: |
Tech Pubs. work at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics, , Writing task-based software instructions, FrameMaker, interviewing developers, self-testing your procedures, proofreading. |
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| Job description: |
Our client needs a user guide for software (and a hardware board) that produces a graphic prototype for a new digital display (think speedometer, GPS screen, a cluster of aircraft indicators). It does not have a user-friendly install.
For this classic user-guide writing contract:
1. Find out what the Industrial Designer who uses the system wants to do on it.
2. Write task-based topics, followed by numbered steps.
Do not describe all of the modules and parts the developers built (under the hood). They will try to get you to do this, but don’t. Instead, write a task-based heading, followed by a recipe for completing each task the Industrial Designer wants to do. Write a tutorial. Use active verbs only. |
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| How to apply: |
Send your resume, Word or PDF operations manual samples to reply1@techwriters.com. You must include the city and state where you live on your resume. |
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| Contact name: |
Dorothy Webster |
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| Website: |
www.Techwriters.com |
