Technical Writing - What Does a Technical Writer Bring to the Job?

Communication skills going in two directions, one to the nuser and two to the more technical people, the developersso telen that a technical writer needs to have a softer engineering background. I've often joked in some places that i've worked that having a masters in computer science helps me to talk to the ph ds and then translate what they're saying to a regular people. So it helps, but it's not necessarily - especially if the product is some products will have non-technical end users who are non technical. Some products will have technical end users. Then the more technical the audience is also.