This is a short article that discusses how technical advances are creating new job opportunities for technical writers, as well as making them essential to the success of many new companies and products.
—Posted by jenniferschrauth on 12/7/2010
This guys' blog has a whole wealth of information on how to improve your writing and each week tackles a specific tip or trick.
—Posted by starda45 on 12/7/2010
This blog is a business writing blog and this post deals with a particularly hard form of writing in the business place, writing condolences. An interesting read and very informative. Definitely goes back to some of the things we learn in Text & Discourse and Revising & Editing!
—Posted by starda45 on 12/7/2010
This site contains a plethora of articles about technical writing careers and how to guides!
—Posted by starda45 on 12/7/2010
noticed lately that people aren’t very good at handling criticism, even when they’ve asked for it. Our natural tendency when given advice or criticism is to become defensive and upset. We try to convince the person they’re wrong (or at least to see it from our perspective) which, ironically, has the exact opposite of the intended effect.
—Posted by jeambriz on 12/7/2010
Good writers know that lean, vibrant language is almost always preferable to verbose, rambling writing. There is virtually no writing in the world so good that it can’t be made better by making it shorter. There are exceptions, of course – a contract needs to cover every possible potentiality, as does the text of an international treaty, but these documents are not really meant to be read, they’re meant to be enacted.
—Posted by jeambriz on 12/7/2010
The tech publishing industry may work many ways, and I’m no expert on it, but the most surprising thing to me was that in the tech world, you generally don’t write a book and then go look for a publisher who’ll print it. It works the other way around. Generally, they do market research, decide they need a book on a topic, and go looking for people who are competent to write it.
—Posted by jeambriz on 12/7/2010
Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi. Below are ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on how to fix them.
—Posted by jeambriz on 12/7/2010
Advice for Engineers - as a CS major I can relate
—Posted by jeambriz on 12/7/2010
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