Technical writers no longer depend heavily on words alone to deliver their message across but are making good use of audio and video, infographics, illustrations, screen-captures, graphics, and animation via modern tools and interactive technologies available in the market.

Writing and communication is not only about scrupulous writing and editing, but being the most important part of the complete cycle of designing the output from start to finish. Key considerations are keeping simple, maintaining consistency in terms of words, terminology, fonts, grammar, format, style etc. throughout the document. They design the entire document structure, write, edit, and format documents so their responsibilities often go beyond just writing.