Research reports
The principles of good writing and document design apply to technical reports as much as to other types of documentation.
Commercial technical writers sometimes 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 Mike Unwalla became a technical writer, he was a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Sheffield University. The work was about file partitioning in multi-processor database machines. This environment gave him a good knowledge of IT and software development, which is the focus of TechScribe's documentation.