National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) 2006

• F - Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
• F0 - Professional Occupations in Art and Culture
• F02 - Writing, Translating and Public Relations Professionals

F021 - Authors and Writers

Authors and writers plan, research and write books, scripts, storyboards, plays, essays, speeches, manuals, specifications and other non-journalistic articles for publication or presentation. They are employed by advertising agencies, governments, large corporations, private consulting firms, publishing firms, multimedia/new-media companies and other establishments, or they may be self-employed.

• Example Titles

  • ad writer
  • advertising copywriter
  • advertising writer
  • author
  • biographer
  • copywriter
  • crossword puzzle maker
  • designer and script writer
  • dialogue writer
  • dubbing dialogue writer
  • essayist
  • feature writer
  • fiction writer
  • game, CD-ROM or Web critic
  • ghost writer
  • handbook writer
  • help file developer
  • humorist-author
  • interactive media writer
  • lexicographer
  • literary writer
  • manual writer
  • multimedia author
  • multimedia script writer
  • multimedia writer
  • new media writer
  • novelist
  • on-line reference developer
  • playwright
  • poet
  • programmed-instruction writer
  • publicity writer
  • radio writer
  • rewriter
  • scientific writer
  • screen writer
  • script and dialogue writer
  • script writer
  • self-instruction manual writer
  • serial story writer
  • serial writer
  • short story writer
  • specifications writer
  • specifications writer (except construction)
  • speech writer
  • sports writer - novels and books
  • standards writer
  • storyboarder
  • support materials writer
  • technical writer
  • technical writer - aeronautics
  • technical writer - chemical processing
  • technical writer - electronics equipment
  • technical writer - pharmaceutical industry
  • teleplay writer, screenwriter
  • television writer
  • writer
  • writer, advertising
  • writer, fiction
  • writer, handbooks
  • writer, interactive media
  • writer, multimedia
  • writer, new media
  • writer, self-instruction manuals
  • writer, short stories
  • writer, speeches

• Exclusion

  • Journalists (See F023 Journalists)