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Write Your
Way to Riches gives you comprehensive, step-by-step details
on how to make money as a technical writer. Technical writing is one
of the highest paid writing professions, and it's easy to get into.
You'll learn what background and skills you need to enter the profession
and start making money. More importantly, you'll find out how to keep
your skills up to date so that you stay employed.
You'll find out how to branch out into other areas of information design
so that you make more money.
You'll also learn how to build a portfolio so that you increase your
chances of getting the job.
If you're an experienced technical writer, you'll find out how to break
into contracting, where the average salary is $72,000. You'll learn
how to find agencies and companies that want your business.
Write Your Way to Riches gives you a comprehensive list of resources.
The appendices contain job sources, schools that offer technical writing
programs, Internet sites of interest to technical writers, tax and retirement
information, insurance and investment information for contractors, books
on technical writing, and much more.
Just listen to what readers have to say:
"Your self-published book is excellent and should be in the career
libraries of offices like this across the country. I am certainly glad
to add it to ours, both because it is well written and because it can
open the eyes of communication majors and other folks to a great potential
career field for them, technical writing. Thanks so much."
-- Bill Alberta, Director, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Career Center, Cornell University
"Write Your Way to Riches gives you an easy to follow format,
realistic advice, and useful information, including a myriad of current
educational and career resources. It's the perfect guide for anyone
trying to break into technical writing."
-- Tammy St. Louis, Writing Professor, University of Massachusetts
"I read your book a couple of weeks ago ... it was really good. You
had a good tone ... the reading went easily ... and you have lots of
useful information. I've recommended it to a couple of people already."
-- Heather Johnstone, technical writer
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