Check out Tools are not a content strategy by Alan Pringle. Here is an excerpt:
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
Content creators love their tools. So much, in fact, they sometimes mistake selecting tools for developing a content strategy.
When evaluating content processes, focusing too intently on tools is an understandable reflexive…
Check out Catering for novices and expert users at stc17 by Sarah Maddox. Here is an excerpt:
This week I’m attending STC Summit 2017, the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication. These are my notes from one of the sessions at the conference. All credit goes to the presenter, and any mistakes are mine.
Laurian Vega presented a session titled “Novices AND Experts,…
Welcome to this Certified Technical Writer lesson on how to approach technical writing. In this lesson we cover one of the basics – how to write for an international or global audience. This approach is important to the effectiveness of technical writing and can be a different mindset than the kind of writing you do for a typical email or social media.
When you write for an international audience you should have translation and localization in mind. Translation and localization can be very expensive for a company. If you are careful of the words you use you can cut down on the costs of translation.
To learn more about becoming a certified technical writer and earning your technical writing designation, visit our main website at http://www.BusinessTraining.com.
Check out How to assemble your existing writing into an ebook by Scott Nesbitt. Here is an excerpt:
Let’s be honest: not all of us have a book in us. At least, not a book in the traditional sense. By that I mean a book that we write from scratch from beginning to end.
That shouldn’t stop you from self publishing an ebook, though. Whether you’re non-fiction writer who pens blog posts…
Check out Essential reads for the freelance writer by Scott Nesbitt. Here is an excerpt:
No matter how much you know or think you know, you can always learn more. One of the best ways to learn, especially about writing, is to read. Then, practice what you’ve read about. To do that, you need to find the right material to read.
Here are a few books and blog posts that I think…
What Is Technical Writing?: "The only good criterion for technical writing is 'does it work?' This indicates that in technical writing as well as in other <a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/rhetoricterm.htm">rhetorical</a> forms, the writer-reader relationship is most important" (Gordon Mills and John Walter, <i>Technical Writing</i>, 1954)
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Welcome to this Certified Technical Writer lesson on style for technical writing. When we refer to style we cover the many items that can go into the type of style guide we discuss in this lesson. After completing the lesson you should be able to describe, set up, and use a style guide.
To learn more about becoming a certified technical writer and earning your technical writing designation, visit our main website at http://www.BusinessTraining.com.
Check out Enormity by rogersgeorge. Here is an excerpt:
I mentioned enormity a while back, as a word that most people get wrong. Here’s someone who gets it correct!
In case you didn’t see that earlier post, “enormity” means extremely bad, not extremely big.
And here’s a more serious example of getting enormity right. It’s from This Day in History…
Check out Slides for Write the Docs Portland presentation on doc navigation best practices by . Here is an excerpt:
Slides for my presentation on doc navigation are available below. I’m giving this presentation at Write the Docs Portland on May 15. The presentation is about 20 minutes long.
