{"id":6,"date":"2003-01-14T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2003-01-14T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-14T22:16:00","slug":"6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/6\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is Technical Communication?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s the process of gathering information from experts and presenting it to an audience in a clear, easily understandable form.<br \/>\n<br \/>These &#8220;experts&#8221; can be engineers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, or anyone else with a special knowledge of a certain field of study. 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