| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Business Writer |
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
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- Observe production, developmental, and experimental activities to determine operating procedure and detail.
- Arrange for typing, duplication, and distribution of material.
- Study drawings, specifications, mockups, and product samples to integrate and delineate technology, operating procedure, and production sequence and detail.
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| Communications Writer |
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
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- Confer with clients, editors, publishers, or producers to discuss changes or revisions to written material.
- Write articles, bulletins, sales letters, speeches, and other related informative, marketing and promotional material.
- Develop factors such as themes, plots, characterizations, psychological analyses, historical environments, action, and dialogue, to create material.
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| Writing Proofreader |
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Compare information or figures on one record against same data on other records, or with original copy, to detect errors.
- Route proofs with marked corrections to authors, editors, typists, or typesetters for correction and/or reprinting.
- Consult reference books or secure aid of readers to check references with rules of grammar and composition.
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