Nobody can write
Nobody can write.
Nobody is born writing. We learn it, from our parents and teachers. We learn grammar and spelling rules.
When we're a bit older, we learn how to write cover letters, and CVs, and essays. We learn about different styles, and formats, and the importance of following conventions.
(if we're lucky enough to go to a school with a good English Literature department, we also learn to critically reflect on conventions: Six O'Clock News by Tom Leonard has stuck with me since my teens).
Then, if we go to university, we dive into the specialist writing of our subject. Scientists learn one jargon, lawyers another, philosophers another again. We up our essay writing game, and learn to write papers, literature reviews, thesis.
And then, some of us end up as tech writers. And if we're very, very lucky, we have someone early in our career who teaches us to write: how to simplify our language (breaking us out of our essay habits), make information accessible, and make reading as low-friction as humanly possible.
And then someone who has done all of that apart from the last paragraph comes along, decides 'everyone can write,' and starts making a mess.
If you're lucky enough to have trained tech writers at your company, then do yourself a favour, and let them practice their craft: style, structure, clarity and consistency, readability . . . please let the technical writers own this.
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