What is the importance of technical writing in the modern world?
A technical writer has no standard career path, but technical
writers may move into project management over other writers. A
writer may advance to a senior technical writer position, handling
complex projects or a small team of writers and editors. In larger
groups, a documentation manager might handle multiple projects and
teams.
Technical writers may also gain expertise in a particular
technical domain and branch out into related forms, such as
software quality analysis or business analysis. A technical writer
who becomes a subject matter expert in a field may transition from
technical writing to analyst work in that field.
Senior writers in some software documentation departments are
increasingly called Individual Contributor (IC). See also API
writer. In API/software documentation, ICs typically work with a
team of developers or testers across many physical locations. In
such software development in "software research organizations," an
IC plays an important role in the delivery of API/Software
documentation.