4 Questions When Entering Job Market
A reader who has just received his Bachelor’s degree (congrats!) sent the following letter the other day:“I would like to break into the technical writing/communication field, though I have some questions: 1) What should I have as an entry level technical writer? That is, what should my portfolio contain? 2) What are some alternate job titles for…
Read MoreHazards of Poorly Written Technical Documentation
© Ugur Akinci I don’t like to whine and be negative in general. Life is too short to go around fuming about things that we can’t change. However, there are times when we all need to be critical in order to improve things; especially if they fall within our area of expertise. The other day…
Read MoreAn Online Dictionary of Hi-Tech Terms for Technical Writers: SE VOCAB
© Ugur Akinci Dictionaries are the bread and butter of our profession. As technical writers we need them like the parched earth needs rain water. In technical writing, a good dictionary serves at least two important purposes: (1) To make sure that what we are writing is correct. (If a technical document is not correct,…
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How to Aggregate MS Excel Daily Data with Pivot Table
Introduction If you have daily data that still makes sense when aggregated into weekly or monthly data, then you can accomplish that very easily in Microsoft Excel, thanks to the pivot table. You can apply this method to, for example, a data of “trucks arrived” or “shirts bought” per day since the total aggregate amounts…
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