Redundancy is when you say the same thing twice. It’s a sub-type of the error we call a pleonasm, unnecessary words. https://www.comicskingdom.com/tiger/2021-08-20 You can see the repetition, right? “Betcha” is…
-
-
For just shy of six years, I have been keeping track of the number of technical writer job postings on indeed.com—the largest job aggregator website in the United States. With…
-
I recently came across a great commentary in the August 2021 issue of “Pharma Technology Focus.” The article is titled, “MDR set to transform how MedTech firms approach content management,”…
-
Here’s the comic: https://www.gocomics.com/humble-stumble/2021/06/20 That kid knows grammar! Elision is when you leave something out that should really be there, usually. In the first panel he left off the subject,…
-
I might have addressed “none” before, but this example strikes me as a good illustration of the effect of context. After all, none is a contraction of “not (even) one.”…
-
This client provides a range of software and services for the mining sector, and it looking for a Technical Author to join the company. They have offices around the world,…
-
At some point, a Word document I received lost all the blue underlines representing hyperlinks for web addresses (URLs). The links were still there (you could hover over them and…
-
A question came up recently in a conversation about structured authoring and a migration into a component content management system: “If we’re not going to reuse this content, and it…
-
This is one of my hobby horses. Second panel Criterion is singularCriteria is plural https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2012/06/21 She should have said “criterion.” At least I never hear anyone say “criterions.” Harrumph.
-
Content operations (or ContentOps) refers to the system your organization uses to develop, deploy, and deliver customer-facing information. Rahel Bailie refers to it as the way that your organization operationalizes…
