Ed Hawco

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• Team Leader, Technical Communications at Positron Public Safety Systems

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Ed Hawco’s Summary

My core field is written communications. That means everything from software user guides through technical brochures, annual reports, press releases, white papers, trade magazine editorials, and print advertising. My focus is clear, concise, instructive, and persuasive communication. My goal is to produce reader-centered writing, which means I write as if the words are being pulled by the reader's needs, not simply pushed at them.

In other words, I like to tell things to people. In particular, I like to tell them things they want to know, like how this gizmo works, or what might happen if they click that button. Or what they stand to gain if they shell out cash for this shiny new product.

I spent about ten years writing software user guides, then I spent a year with one foot in that world and the other in marketing. In 2001 I switched almost exclusively into marketing communications for the telecommunications industry, but in 2008 I returned to my roots in technical communications.

Ed Hawco’s Specialties:

Currently, it's telecommunications. Before that it was Internet security, and before that, cinematic special effects software. Oh, then there was that three-year stint in finite element analysis (electromagnetics).

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Ed Hawco’s Interests:

Written communication, reading and writing of creative non-fiction, blogs, photography, cinema, cooking.