A task performed by Technical Writers
Organize material and complete writing assignment according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
Not yet. Workers want this automated (3.63/5), but experts rate today's AI capability at only 3/5, the technology isn't there. It's an R&D Opportunity.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 8 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers want this automated
- Frees up time for higher-value work75%
- Helps handle larger scale63%
- It's repetitive50%
- Reduces human error50%
How to automate this
Workers want this gone, but today's tools only get part of the way. Automate the edges.
Analyzing & processing data
Let the spreadsheet or a BI tool do the math and the charts.
- 1Set up formulas and pivot tables once, so the numbers you need to organize material and complete writing assignment according to set standards regarding order recalculate themselves.
- 2Connect a free dashboard so reports refresh themselves (Looker Studio, Power BI).
- 3Use AI to summarise the findings, but keep the numbers in the spreadsheet.
Tools that can help
Know a better way, or spot an error?
Share how you automate this in real life, or correct the data. Reviewed before publishing.
This is 1 of 8 tasks studied for Technical Writers, where workers want 25% of tasks automated.
More Technical Writers tasks
- Arrange for typing, duplication, and distribution of material.R&D Opportunity
- Maintain records and files of work and revisions.Low Priority
- Select photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material.Low Priority
- Review published materials and recommend revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of repro…Red Light
- Develop or maintain online help documentation.Low Priority
- Analyze developments in specific field to determine need for revisions in previously published materials and…Red Light
Other R&D Opportunity tasks
- Prepare written reports that estimate property values, outline methods by which the estimations were made, an…Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate
- Assist drafters in developing the structural design of products, using drafting tools or computer-assisted dr…Mechanical Engineers
- Design and conduct hardware or software tests.Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
- Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and dis…Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Evaluate data processing proposals to assess project feasibility and requirements.Computer and Information Systems Managers
- Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.Business Teachers, Postsecondary