"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…
Read MoreHow to Insert Multiple Independent Numbering Sequences into MS Word 2007 Document by Using SEQ Field Codes
© Ugur Akinci Numbering is one of the weaknesses of MS Word unless of course you know how to do it right. If you try to maintain multiple numbering sequences by just using the numbering tool that Word offers by tool on the tool bar, you are doomed. I guarantee you your numbering system will…
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