Interview practice for technical writing

General practice authored by Roamwise. Not actual employer questions.

1. How would you define a task guide’s reader and starting knowledge?

Follow-up: Which assumption affects whether the steps are understandable?
My review: Did I state what I expect the reader to know?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point:


2. What information would you preserve when turning a requirement into an instruction?

Follow-up: How do you separate a prerequisite from an expected result?
My review: Did I overload a step with several ambiguous actions?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point:


3. How would you handle a draft when you do not know the product’s error behaviour?

Follow-up: How would you phrase the question for the right person?
My review: Did I leave an open question instead of inventing behaviour?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point:


4. Describe one revision made after reader feedback.

Follow-up: Which problem does the change between the original and revised sentence address?
My review: Is my revision reasoning connected to the reader’s task?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point: