Technical writing comprises of designing and creating technical documents such as user manuals, administration guide, installation manual, quick reference guides, and training manuals. The subject matter of technical documents revolve around technologies, products, or processes.

One thing that you should know is that a person doesn’t really need to be very creative to become a technical writer. Technical writing is all about explaining difficult to comprehend concepts and procedures in a very simple, plain and easily understandable language. But that doesn’t mean that job of a technical writer is an easy one, as lots of mind and time goes into it and lot of research work is done. It is regarded as both art and science as it involves both writing and a systematic technique of doing technical writing. So a person with technical background as well as a mass communication or an English literature graduate may be a latest participant in the field of technical writing.

Writing user manuals, training manuals, online help files, brochures etc. is not a new activity but their classification under the term “Technical Writing” is relatively new happening in India. The scene for technical writing as a career is continuously growing with pay checks at par with other prevalent career options like IT and Management in India.

Presently, technical writing picture is not very bright and rosy in India. The field of technical writing did not exist till the 1990s. Almost a decade old now, technical writing does not have many professionals associated with it, but it is slowly gaining momentum.

There are a considerable number of takers in several metro cities. If you follow www.goolge.com/trends for the phrase “Technical Writing” then you will see that some of metros in India reserving the top 5 positions. This trend shows that of late need for technical writers in the country has been realized by many companies especially into product and services. This has happened because of the sudden rush of outsourcing, which is improving the prospects for this field.

Right now a technical degree is not mandatory to become a technical writer so there are entrants from other fields like humanities in this profession. Currently, the only decisive factor is very good command over English language. Our counterparts in US are realizing the need for professionally trained technical writers and that gives force to their employability. So US is giving lots of opportunities to the aspirants to get trained in the subject while in India there are almost no university courses for technical writing. There are some privately run institutes who have realized the need of the hour and are offering courses in technical writing.

Also, there are many technical writing activities taking place in India now – meetings and annual conferences in almost every major city. Mailing lists, news letters that illustrate written skills and even special interest groups are being formed.

With the continuing trend technical writing will get the boost the profession requires. Corporate should come forward to employ and also give training to raw technical writers.