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Welcome to the Professional Writing Career Finder! |
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Here you will find a compendium of careers and job fields made possible by earning a degree in Professional Writing. We have four main tracks, each of which have their own skill sets and necessary traits. Keep in mind, within this major, you will find that many skills are applicable in most jobs described here. This site will help you project for your future goals, as well as give you an idea what kind of careers our students typically wind up in. The great thing about a Professional Writing major, though, is that you can do almost anything with it! PW Career OverviewThe field of technical/professional writing is active and growing, as evidenced both by the growing number of universities developing professional writing programs and by the growing number of working professionals in the field. The Society of Technical Communication (STC), the professional organization for technical and professional communicators, now has over 24,000 members, and the STC reports a 69% increase in its membership since 1990. As U.S. businesses and industries shift to a global, information-based economy (and especially an economy based on online distribution of information), this field will continue to grow--as will the demand for trained professionals in this area. Information from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook (2000):
Students with a degree in Professional Writing work as: Technical Communicators; Web Authors, Designers, and Content Managers; Publishers / Publishing Coordinators / Publication Managers; Science Writers / Medical Writers; Information Architects; Usability Specialists / Usability Researchers; Communication Specialists; Grant and/or Proposal Writers; and in other writing- and editing-related roles. Students with a degree in Professional Writing might take on some of the following tasks (excerpted from recent Monster.com job posts):
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