[The Affect of Social Media on the Technical Writing Profession]

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION1

LITERATURE REVIEW1

Technical writing1

Importance of Social media2

Technical writing and social media3

METHODOLOGY3

DISCUSSION4

Technical Writing and social media concept4

Improvement for technical writing for social media5

CONCLUSION5

WORK CITED7

Introduction

This aim of the study is to provide the details about the affect of social media on the technical writing profession. Since the technical writers are being forced to adapt to presenting information via social media and this presents challenges that don't exist in print, such as fast-paced exchanges of information, providing information in less words, and so on.

Literature Review

Technical writing

Technical writing is described as to design, write, edit and publish documents with technical information clearly and concisely for the target market. The technical documentation should be well written and contain fewer human errors, present the user with the new system or program in an understandable and eliminate the need for expensive training sessions and support.

To do this, technical writers should use the best and most advanced technologies and processes in the sector, such as checking and automatic suggestion of terminology, style guides of best practices, controlled language and assisted technical writing. Whether it goes to a local audience and the world market, the content must clearly reach the target audience. In this way ensures that the contents reach a global public easily while reducing costs location (David, p. na).

In today's technological world, the contents are no longer distributed only through traditional channels such as printed media, but is distributed in various formats, such as the Internet (static or dynamic designs, wikis, blogs.), and online help. The same content can be published in multiple formats to reach a wider audience in new ways and deliver a better experience and interaction with the user.

Importance of Social media

Social media is important nowadays as it is the widest medium through which communication can be made stronger and the knowledge of surfers can be improved as they access various social networks and communicate with others. The use of social media can help in communicating with others and accessing the views of people about any discussion in process. Communication is not restricted to websites, internet and emails, but a large number of social media applications available today have a strongly impact the way information is communicated. Social media has enabled people to plan, exchange, discover and share information online. It also allows people to communicate and share information online (Ivan, p. na). Similarly, this information is beyond limits and has no boundaries. Social media information is different and unique which is different from traditional TV and newspaper. Social media also has a great influence on today's corporate organizations. It has also defined new ways of employee communication and shift of organization towards knowledge management, new marketing trends and customer relationship management.

One of the major applications of social media is Wikipedia. It is a web based free multilingual encyclopedia project supported by Wikimedia Foundation. This medium allows individuals across the world to view edit and add information existing on Wikipedia ...