Collaboration Effective communication is the key to collaborative projects. Technical communicators must also be able to work with each other on teams. In an interview, Dr. Linda Tate said, As a project manager, I really learned collaboration. Technical communicators must be able to adapt to each organization, perform varied tasks, and learn new technical tools as they become available. For each document, technical communicators must analyze the type of audience, the tasks the audiences will perform, the audience environment, and the goals of the document.
Some technical communicators fall into the trap of believe that audiences are one size fits all.
To be the most successful, they must analyze the audience in detail. It is essential for technical communicators to be able to convey ideas clearly. They must understand structuring to be able to present information in a logical sequence. Tate said that her writing and proofreading skills were put to the test daily because she was expected to catch everything. Information synthesis Successful technical communicators must be able to gather complex information from several engineers or programmers and present it as simply as possible in one uniform format.