Writing Advantage
by Miki Saxon
Considering the examples of bad writing in Monday’s and Tuesday’s posts it’s obvious that much of the problem comes down to a lack of clarity.
No surprise there, but other than confusing everyone, bad writing easily morphs into no writing, which can be a disastrous to product development, especially in tech.
As the image above shows, lack of writing skills impact every part of a sale, but lack of documentation is probably the worst.
Think about it. Things go wrong with equipment all the time and when it does you go to the manual to see how to fix it.
Software is even worse.
With minimal-to-no documentation, fixing bugs, iterating and keeping legacy software running is extremely difficult, especially if the primary developers leave the company.
No matter your education or experience, if you can write coherently you will have a serious edge over other candidates.
Image credit: Jhayne
