Knowledge Bases

Technical writers who are generally known as technical authors in throughout the world translate as well as organize complex information into user guides which any person may understand as well as use with ease. But in the last few years that we have been in the business and we have often found ourself working with writers who do not really know how to write manuals or use the desktop publishing software as well as with clients who are not entirely sure what to expect from writers.

This is a lack of symmetry between expectation as well as output can create technical writers who unknowingly make the same costly mistakes year after year, as well as clients who regard technical writers as a high-cost, low-value drain on the company's bottom line.

Technical writing as a coherent discipline is still relatively invisible to those outside the field so the issue becomes one of the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged. This issue of recognition is difficult to analyze or understand by the ascendancy of knowledge management in the corporate world. As a result of the three disciplines’ similarities in theory, purpose, as well as action, technical communication is increasingly being absorbed into knowledge management departments.

However, this is not the end of the question . If knowledge management is an appropriate framework for technical writing , how should technical writers define their roles in knowledge management systems? By chance more importantly, how do technical communicators want others in their organizations to perceive them?

• Knowledge Management Explained
• The Technical Writing
• Drawbacks to the Technical Writing
• Advantages of the Technical Writing
• Promoting Technical Writing
• The Role of Intranets in Organizations
• The Technical Writing as a Promotional Tool
• The Technical Writing Knowledge