People who wish to become writers can get experience from internships or summer jobs. Interns write short pieces, do research and interviews, and learn about the publishing or broadcasting business. In small firms, beginning writers and editors write and edit material and work as editorial or production assistants. They often advance by moving to other firms. In larger firms, jobs usually are structured more formally.
Beginners generally do research, fact checking, or copy editing.
They take on full-scale writing or editing duties more slowly than employees of small companies. Advancement comes as they are assigned more important articles. Technical writers begin in two different ways. They may start out as experts in a technical area and learn to write. Some begin as a writer and learn a specialized field.