Communication with our clients is key, but many editors seem to find that engineers speak another language entirely! How can we adapt to work effectively with this delightful, and often lucrative, type of client?
As part of Corrigo’s series of Conversation Starter articles, I’ve asked Christa Bedwin to start a conversation on this topic based on her personal experiences of twenty years of editing science, research, education, and engineering documentation.
Her article will be published here on Corrigo on 13 August 2020.
To join in on what we hope will be a fascinating conversation, you can submit your own article on the subject to Corrigo (editor@stc-techedit.org), or you can write your thoughts the Comments section. If there are enough comments, we’ll collect them all and post them as an article as well.
In my experience with teaching technical writing to Engineers, I quickly learned that they responded best when I clarified how the class information could help them.
Thanks for the comment – you can read more about this here: http://stc-techedit.org/corrigo/conv-start-the-joys-of-teaching-engineers-to-write-2020/