: Re: Does a technical writer need a technical background? Does a technical writer need a technical background?

No. I have been there and done that from both sides.

A technical writer needs to know enough to understand what they are given/told and turn it into something useful. Their job is to turn technical talk into something useful for non-technical people, and also to format it in a style the company uses for their documents.

Content has to come from the engineer/programmer, who may need help getting the useful information onto a page for editing and rewriting. The worst case would be interviewing them and creating the first draft for them. More often, it is checking back to see what they really meant or to fill in holes of things they omitted because 'everybody knows that'.

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