User blog comment:Arikaeli/Technical Writing Portfolio?/@comment-25085701-20181005181755

I'm actually a technical writer as my day job. I'd say that it wouldn't count as a true writing portfolio so much as a writing sample, since:


 * The information rarely goes into great detail -- topics are often short by design.


 * There are very few procedures


 * It is a shared collaboration


 * It is informal writing, similar to hobby writing

That being said:  if your portfolio is otherwise light, it can't hurt to add a few pages in there, as long as you've authored the page from the ground up. It'd be like putting up your personal web page as a writing sample; it doesn't show a lot of -content-.

If I were to put it on my resume, I'd mention that I'm a Habitica Wiki collaborator under 'Other' or 'Hobbies', but then again, they'd also see my blog entries which are quasi-personal at times, and I'm not sure I want to put that up for scrutiny in a professional capacity.

When we look at portfolios, we like seeing completed works, like entire software manuals, since we get an idea of a big picture view of how you write, but for recent college grads, we take term papers and presentations and articles written for journalistic magazines as part of a portfolio.