Technical writing in India is as formulating as anywhere else in the world. This kind of jobs generally involves in-writing, brochures, in designing user guides for products, and white papers for variety of jobs available in this horizon. Well these things are not new or not anything unique but the introduction of technical writing in this is new.

The technical writing in India is growing with a much speed as never before but still no institution in India has introduced any courses for technical writing. Rough estimation involves that there are as many 200 spreads across the country. About 140 of technical writers in India subscribe to an electronic system in India called as TWIN (Technical writers of India). So to know about them this forum is the best medium to go or look at. The final recruiters, Corporate, MNCs need to step in boldly to hire and provide customized training to fresh technical writers as they are of high demand.

Well what qualification does it include i.e. academics or professional qualification because technical writer is a person who explains the intricacies or the concept to the lay person. As technical writer tells the basic background to express the technicality of the subject for which a person must know the technical concepts but it doesn’t mean that person doesn’t belong to technical background cannot be the technical writers.

As in Indian structure sixty five percent belongs to technical background and other thirty five percent belongs to non-technical background. But their something like a command on language and a flair for writing is a must to be a technical writer. As people belong to English literature or journalism are the preferred people. Though we can also include people from advertising and marketing are also considers as like copy writers. As subsequent percentage of people present in this field are from these above categories. Generally, many of the people belongs this above background before switching into this filed of technical writing.

As there is no professional course for this so people entering into this way are because of their family and friends, who are already technical writers. As most of them came to know this from their organizations they are working in and then with advertising bills and people they meet they came to know about this.

On general scale the experienced people in this would be just 2-4 years back but there are some veterans available with the experience from past eight to ten years. The growth in this field in India, the kind of people enters into this professional make an interesting study. Indian technical writers came from very diverse backgrounds and seems to have adopt really well this to this business or industry.