Some words frequently misspelled by computer scientists
“Some words frequently misspelled by computer scientists: implement not impliment complement not compliment occurrence not occurence dependent not dependant auxiliary not auxillary feasible not feasable preceding not preceeding referring not refering category not catagory consistent not consistant PL/I not PL/1 descendant (noun) not descendent its (belonging to it) not it’s (it is)” FROM: …
Read More"Tech Writing Handbook" by iFixit
© Ugur Akinci Here is a “Tech Writing Handbook” for beginner technical writers. It’s very visual, pretty, looks great. Has high eye-candy value. It also covers the basics nicely. http://www.dozuki.com/Tech_Writing However, if you’d like to go deeper and learn more about all these topics while doing exercises, answering quizzes, and writing a User Guide…
Read MoreMathematical Writing: A Great Style Guide for Technical Writers
If you are writing scientific papers with a lot of math equations you may want to have a look at the following style guideline: http://tex.loria.fr/typographie/mathwriting.pdf Mathematical Writing by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts This report is based on a course of the same name given at Stanford University. Here is a…
Read MoreThe Psychology of Job Hunting in Technical Writing
Allow me to say a few words about the psychology of job hunting since I see some artificial obstacles that some technical writers set up for themselves and I’d like to remove them if I can. FIRST OBSTACLE The first obstacle is to think “I’m not a very good technical writer” or “I’m not a…
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