When people ask me to identify the qualities that make a good writer, I certainly list a command of vocabulary, an understanding of grammar, an appreciation for language. And, I always add, "deep curiosity,"
I can't know everything, but I can learn about anything.
Subject matter experts ... business and technical writers have strong opinions about SMEs. Work with a bad one: hate the project, swear to take up coal mining because it has to be an easier job, be suspicious of expert help ever after. Work with a good one: learn more than imaginable, create work to be proud of, be eager for the next project and the next and the next.
I've had the great good fortune to work with gifted subject matter experts to create all types of documents. These people are talented professionals who do amazing work, from developing sophisticated medical devices to parsing the intricacies of pharmaceutical manufacturing standards to expanding reader appreciation for jazz and its history. Together, we take the raw material of their passionate expressions and my facility with language and create books, reports, articles, and journals that inform, educate, and inspire.
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I can't know everything, but I can learn about anything.
Subject matter experts ... business and technical writers have strong opinions about SMEs. Work with a bad one: hate the project, swear to take up coal mining because it has to be an easier job, be suspicious of expert help ever after. Work with a good one: learn more than imaginable, create work to be proud of, be eager for the next project and the next and the next.
I've had the great good fortune to work with gifted subject matter experts to create all types of documents. These people are talented professionals who do amazing work, from developing sophisticated medical devices to parsing the intricacies of pharmaceutical manufacturing standards to expanding reader appreciation for jazz and its history. Together, we take the raw material of their passionate expressions and my facility with language and create books, reports, articles, and journals that inform, educate, and inspire.
Read about my clients and publications.
View samples of my work.