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The publications may be technical reports, instruction manuals, articles, papers, proposals, brochures, and booklets and even speeches for technical meetings and conferences. | Duties of the Technical Writer 71 tion already in existence development reports test procedures and instruction books on similar equipment . If possible obtain the equipment for further study. 2. Meet with the project engineer and other responsible personnel to obtain additional data. 3. Based on information from steps 1 and 2 review the preliminary outline and list of illustrations. Revise this preliminary outline to make a working outline. 4. Deliver the list of required illustrations to the illustration section and discuss how they will be produced. 5. Begin writing the instruction book. During the writing procedure prepare sketches revise existing production drawings and describe requirements for illustrations. Identify illustrations by figure number and title and forward them to the appropriate illustration section. 6. As writing continues check the illustrator s rough drawings. 7. Make arrangements with the photography section for necessary photographs. 8. Review the completed draft. Edit the copy for technical accuracy format content and correct references to illustrations and paragraphs. 9. Submit corrected draft to the editorial section for preliminary review. 10. Following conferences with the copyeditor prepare final draft and forward it to the editorial section. 11. After receiving the reviewers copies of the final draft check and incorporate reviewers comments into the master copy. 12. Review the manuscript completely rechecking all illustration and paragraph references format and paragraphing for technical accuracy. 13. Send the completed manuscript to the editorial section. 72 Opportunities in Technical Writing Careers 14. When galley proofs have been received from the printer review carefully correct and forward the corrected galleys to the editorial section. The importance of careful proofreading cannot be overemphasized. In any publications department that prepares instruction books the writer is involved in the following four phases. 1. Research.
