A technical writer normally avoids describing what the writer has accomplished and let's the part, die, press, material or even unidentified forming personnel tell their story through graphs, tables, photographs and a story line. A technical article that begins with "I arrived at the plant, looked at the stamping and immediately knew how to solve the problem" does not convey any description of the problem or useful data from which one can learn how things work, or more accurately, why things do not work. The writer must be the storyteller, not the main character of the story.
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