Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Technical Writer as a Communication Specialty: Editorial Interpretation of Its Professionogram

  • REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SECTION
  • Published:
Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics Aims and scope

Abstract

The tendency of formation of multifunctional professions is considered. The importance and relevance of introducing the profession of the author of technical documentation into the information and communication environment is indicated. The characteristics of the main provisions of the professional standard for the technical writer are given. Possible directions of professional training in the direction of technical writing are proposed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. Order of the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation dated September 8, 2014 No. 612n “On approval of the professional standard ‘Technical Writer’ (specialist in technical documentation in the field of information technology),” Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. Software and hardware complex “Professional Standards.” http://profstandart.rosmintrud.ru/obshchiy-informatsionnyy-blok/natsionalnyy-reestr-professionalnykh-standartov/reestr-professionalnykh-standartov/index.php?

  2. Order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation dated October 3, 2022 No. 609n “On approval of the professional standard “Technical Writer” (specialist in technical documentation in the field of information technology) // Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. Software and hardware complex “Professional Standards”: https://normativ.kontur.ru/document?moduleId=1&documentId= 436782&ysclid=lnhqhpg64f63692218

REFERENCES

  1. Zeer, E.F., Symanyuk, E.E., and Lebedeva, E.V., Transprofessionalism as a predictor for the preadaptation of an agent to the professional future, Psikhologicheskaya Gazeta, 2022. https://psy.su/feed/9925/?ysclid=lmqijp2url997719512.

  2. Tulupova, O.N. and Petrova, G.I., Theoretical and methodological principles of defining “profession” and “transfession” concepts: A comparative analysis, Vestn. Tomsk. Gos. Univ., Filos. Sotsiol. Politol., 2020, no. 56, pp. 113–121. https://doi.org/10.17223/1998863X/56/11

  3. Rud’, S.M., Is it easy to be an editor…by training?, Redaktor i kniga. Sb. statei (Editor and Book: Coll. of Sci. Papers), Moscow: Kniga, 1982, vol. 9.

  4. Gilyarevskii, R.S., Technical communication and documentation as an information profession, Mezhdunarodnyi Forum Inf. Dokumentatsii, 2003, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 3–8.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Gilyarevskii, R.S., Status and prospects of technical documentation in Russia, Mezhdunarodnyi Forum Inf. Dokumentatsii, 2005, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 3–11.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Bol’shakov, I.A., Technical writers required…, Preprint no. 20, Moscow: VINITI, 1987.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Beliaeva, L.N. and Kamshilova, O.N., Problems and perspectives of language worker professional training, Int. J. Open Inf. Technol., 2018, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 35–42. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/problemy-i-perspektivy-professionalnoy-podgotovki-lingvotehnologa? ysclid=lnfzo0iefr719950457.

  8. Belyaeva, L.N., Information 4.0–Text and language worker in the information technology space, 2017, pp. 21–23.

  9. Veledinskaya, S.B., Professional communication in a foreign language as a key element of engineering students' training, Yazyk Kul’tura, 2008, no. 1, pp. 86–95.

  10. Suntsova, E.N., Technical communication as an important component in the curricula of Russian engineering universities, Vestn. Tomsk. Gos. Pedagogicheskogo Univ., 2009, no. 6, pp. 9–13. https://vestnik.tspu.edu.ru/ archive.html?year=2009&issue=6&article_id=1352.

  11. Technical writer, Profgid, 2024. https://www.profguide.io/professions/Tekhnicheskiy_pisatel.html?ysclid= lmltp8sjad134569108#%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%BE% D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1% 81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8.

  12. Yusunov, V., Why?. https://techwritex.ru/why.html.

  13. What does a technical writer write about?, 2023. https:// academy.yandex.ru/journal/technicheskii-pisatel.

  14. Register of accredited programs (as of February 17, 2017), Website of the Association for Engineering Education of Russia. http://aeer.ru/ru/reestr_programm.htm.

  15. Interview with Elena Olegovna Zakharova, 2023. https:// techwritex.ru/intervyu-s-elenoj-olegovnoj-zakharovoj-tpu.html.

  16. Specialist in technical communication. https://lip.spbstu.ru/news/specialist_v_sfere_tehnicheskoy_kommunikacii/?ysclid=ln02sg928z405584878.

  17. A technical writer–Who are you?, 2022. https://habr.com/ru/articles/674472/.

Download references

Funding

This work was supported by ongoing institutional funding. No additional grants to carry out or direct this particular research were obtained.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Theory and Methodology edit, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    N. G. Inshakova & I. A. Pankeev

Authors
  1. N. G. Inshakova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. I. A. Pankeev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to N. G. Inshakova or I. A. Pankeev.

Ethics declarations

The authors of this work declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Additional information

Publisher’s Note.

Allerton Press remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Inshakova, N.G., Pankeev, I.A. Technical Writer as a Communication Specialty: Editorial Interpretation of Its Professionogram. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 58, 80–85 (2024). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105524010072

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105524010072

Keywords:

Search

Navigation