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title: "Learn the basics of technical writing (TW Job)"
date: 2009-12-18
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# Learn the basics of technical writing (TW Job)
If you're in a college that offers a degree in technical writing (usually a degree in English with an emphasis in technical writing), by all means do it.

If I were doing it over, I would actually double-major in English and computer science. Some students prefer to get domain knowledge, such as in accounting or engineering, and then supplement that knowledge with writing skills.