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Is an Online Technical Writing Education Possible?

Yes! Arizona State University, the highest ranking online technical writing school, is an accredited US institution offering programs to train individuals to become outstanding technical writers, business writers, writers, creative writers, etc. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, at present there are 46,270 people employed as technical writers alone in America, and their average annual salary is $65,610. Writers and authors make on average $64,560 per year and there are about 43,390 of them employed today. Online schools like Arizona State University have been proven to help successfully launch workers into this field.

• developing content using any number of multimedia formats
• working with the client to produce advertising themes
• maintaining blogs or issue text messages
• making their living by selling their written content to book and magazine publishers
• reviewing and edit drafts of books and articles
• planing budgets and negotiate contracts
• suggesting revisions
• arranging page layouts of articles
• preparing copy for printing
• offering comments to improve the work

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