In this video Nicky Bleiel covers: What is Technical Writing?, Technical Writing Deliverables, Types of Technical Writing, Examples and Resources.
*Resources listed in this video with URLs*
Examples of Technical Writing:
Software and Hardware:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/ipho…
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wor…
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra…
http://helpcentral.componentone.com/D…
http://www.catgenie.com/customer-serv…
Engineering Reports:
Writing Engineering Technical Reports: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/d…
owl.english.purdue.edu/media/ppt/20061207031120_647.ppt
http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/con…
Training Materials:
http://www.astd.org/
http://www.e-learningguru.com/article…
http://managementhelp.org/trng_dev/tr…Ways to get Experience:
FLOSS Manuals http://en.flossmanuals.net/
WikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/Resources:
Society for Technical Communication http://www.stc.org
EServer Technical Communication Library http://tc.eserver.org/Download your free trial of Doc-To-Help at: http://www.doctohelp.com
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