Posts by Ugur Akinci
BEST-SELLER VIDEO COURSE: Professional Technical Writing
Learn to Become a Professional Technical Writer TECHNICAL WRITING PAYS WELL Technical writers in the USA made an average of $71,950 a year, according to the latest available STC (Society for Technical Communication) Salary Data. According to glassdoor-dot-com, top-earning tech writers at companies like Google make as much as $165,000 a year. Obviously, this course…
Read MoreFREE 7 Day Technical Writing Email Course
Start learning technical writing today! Take this free course to get up to speed with this little known writing niche for which there is a great demand out there. This FREE course covers the following topics: Day 1, Lesson 1 – Why become a Technical Writer? Day 2, Lesson 2 – How to Research a…
Read MoreHow to Write Difficult Emails
Copy-and-Paste Guide to Writing Proper Emails in Stressful Situations Over 10,000 words. A special ebook on writing emails in all kinds of situations, including condolence emails, complaints emails, collection emails, and others. Writing an email is a “necessary evil” for some yet a source of enjoyment and enrichment for others. The truth is, whether you…
Read MoreProposal Planning and Writing for RFPs
Write Great Proposals to Win U.S. Government Contracts “Proposal Planning and Writing for RFPs” is a 51-page (8.5” x 11”) comprehensive volume describing in over 10,000 words every aspect of responding to a government RFP (Request For Proposal). This e-book even covers the questions that need to be asked to decide whether an RFP is…
Read MoreAP Associated Press Style Guide Quiz Book
150 Questions with Answers to Test your AP Guide Knowledge Learn how to Write the Time, the Seasons, and the Dates Correctly in AP Style This special quiz workbook is prepared to test your knowledge of the AP Stylebook and its principles. It’ll help you learn and master many conventions of the AP style easily…
Read More100 Active Voice and Passive Voice Exercises with Answers
Active voice is that sentence construction where a SUBJECT is followed by a VERB and then the OBJECT of action. SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT Example: “Mary loves books.” Passive voice is constructed by starting the sentence with the OBJECT of the ACTIVE voice sentence (which in passive construction is called the SUBJECT of the…
Read MoreWriting Transition Phrases and Sentences
12 Types of Transition with 112 Examples Why Transitions are Important… Transitioning from one sentence or paragraph to another is the bread and butter of all successful writers, especially those who write non-fiction. With a great transition, the readers are able to understand the succession of complex ideas as well as the general context of…
Read MoreHow to Measure the Value of Your Technical Communication Content
In the technical communication field, we know the value of our work. We know that the content we develop impacts real people on a daily basis. It’s a little more difficult to prove the value of technical communication to people outside of our wonderful niche. There are 4 reasons why it’s important to measure the effectiveness of your…
Read MoreHow to Insert Text and Images to a FrameMaker Side Bar
Imagine you are using Adobe FrameMaker and you’d like to insert a Note, Warning, or Caution text or icon into your Side Head (or Side Bar). It’s easy when you know how to do it, as explained in this video. Just make sure to create the necessary paragraph styles (or tags) for this task. MORE…
Read MoreWhat’s a Font, Font Family, Typeface, Font-Face?
Sound knowledge of fonts is a must for any self-publishing writer. In about fifteen or twenty years that may not be as crucial as it is today if and when the communication field makes a wholesale shift to “structured authoring” in which the writers may lose control over how their “content” will be formatted and…
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