Research reports
The principles of good writing and document design apply to technical reports as much as to any other forms of documentation.
Commercial technical writers occasionally work with academics to produce books, articles and research reports. For example, we have worked with Mechanical Engineering academics to produce documents that are suitable for non-technical readers.
Before becoming a business writer, Mike Unwalla was a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Sheffield University. The focus of the work was file partitioning in multi-processor database machines. This environment gave him a good grounding in IT and software development, which is the focus of TechScribe's documentation.