Also, is technical writing a great career for english majors?

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Mathmatics and science is better for technical writing. I was accepted to a top technical writing program when I was in college and found I couldn't really do the hard math and scence courses required to be one. You'll be writing instruction manuals, (insert tab a into slot b and use this size screw,) Also you'll be writing about how to use various items, like software. Esentally, you'll be 'dumbing stuff down' for those of us who don't understand it. These are highly specialized and technical fields. You'll have to understand it better then the designer, the programer or the engineer in order to explain it to those who nothing about it. The programers/designers don't have this added skill, they just have the knowledge of how to make itIt take a writing and technical 'genus'' to dumb stuff down properly. You have to be able to do it a way so it makes sense to those who have zero background in it, and yet not seem to be talking to down to them. Are you up for the challenge?