Did You Know these FrameMaker Facts?
© 2010 Ugur Akinci I love FrameMaker. I’ve been using it on an almost daily basis for the last 12 years. It’s my authoring and publishing tool of reference for all book-length manuscripts with images, tables, TOC, Index, and multiple lists (of tables, figures, etc.), and complex pagination. It’s solid, scalable without any worries, and…
Read MoreWrite Your Technical Documents with Consistent Voice and Mood
Technical writing is consistent writing, whether you’re writing software or marketing specs. Your sentences need to be consistent in Voice Mood Case Tense Style If you end your sentences with the same mood, voice and tense that you start them with, the battle is already won. [Which rule did this sentence violate already?] Technique 1)…
Read MoreUse Parallel Construction in Technical Writing, whenever possible
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Try to write in sentences that have similar syntaxes and components. Construct your sentences and paragraphs with “parallel,” i.e. similar, components. That increases audience comprehension and retention. It makes your technical documents more user-friendly. For example, if you start the first sentence in a procedural description with an action verb, start…
Read MoreSouth Dakota — Black Hills State University Offers Corporate Communication B.S. Degree
BROOKINGS, S.D. – The South Dakota Board of Regents Thursday approved a new undergraduate degree in corporate communication at Black Hills State University. It also authorized the university to deliver its existing mass communication degree to students in Rapid City. “In today’s business world, it is more important than ever to prepare effective communicators,” said…
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