Appianing

Appianing is a TCLoc Master's student at the University of Strasbourg with experience in content management and digital publication workflows in international environments. His research explores technical communication and localization practices across industries and markets.

The four dimensions of technical communication work shown as process, product, tools, and information types communication work

4 Core Skills Every Technical Communicator Needs to Know

In my last post I answered who a technical communicator is. This one answers the harder question: what do they actually need to know to do the job well? Going through tekom’s training material, I found the answer split into four dimensions. Not four job titles, four kinds of knowledge that live in the same person at the

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Who Is a Technical Communicator? A Field Guide to the Role

Ask ten people what a technical communicator does and you’ll get ten different answers. A tech writer. Someone who writes manuals. “IT support, sort of?” I used to give a vague answer myself, even after seven years running editorial systems and SEO content for international organizations. I was doing pieces of this work without ever

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