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Credits: Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels Curious about what a technical writer can do for you? Here are twenty-five things you might find a technical writer doing in their job on any given day: Interviewing a subject matter expert to learn more about what they are writing about. This might be a product manager, project lead, developer, customer, salesperson, developer advocate, end user, nearly anyone who might touch or use what we are a writing about.

Credits: Image credit: Photo by Moose Photos from Pexels I would also like to thank the tech writers in the Write the Docs Slack’s #lone-writer channel for bringing these ideas to the top of my mind. Everyone suffers from a bias of familiarity when looking at our docs. Once you read something once, the next time you read it the mind can anticipate and insert what it remembers and expects to be there.