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So you want to be a writer?

By , Salary.com contributing writer.

Writers and editors are behind the text you see in books, magazines, and newspapers as well as in technical help manuals, advertisements, and textbooks. And it’s not just the words you read that they are responsible for, but also the words you hear: on TV, in movies, and in radio commercials. For all that variety, writers usually specialize in one or two different types of writing based on their background knowledge and field of expertise.