Posts Tagged ‘Technical Writing’
Five Things Technical Writers need to do at least Once
by Will Kelly I’ve had a chance to meet with some technical writers, hiring managers, and potential clients over the past few weeks and the picture of the technical writing profession remains as troubled as ever. While many senior technical writers are driven into contracting there is still an insular technical writing community that has…
Read More7 Tips for Drawing Great Labels in Adobe Illustrator
© Ugur Akinci You can enhance the value of your services as a technical communicator and writer if you learn how to draw labels. Thousands of companies out there need labels to market their products. While some of these labels are rather elaborate and require the skills of a trained graphic artist, not all labels…
Read MoreResume Power Tip: Think Technical Writing
Most people set out to write a narrative of some type when creating their resumes. However, employers are thinking of your resume in a different light–and will make a hiring decision based on the FACTS of your career, more so than the stories. The most effective and powerful resumes provide analytical, precise detail about your…
Read MoreHow to start a career in Technical Writing
© 2009-2011 Ugur Akinci Technical writing has proven to be a very lucrative field in the last ten years with many contractors earning well over 100k per year. As discipline continues to gain recognition, there are increasing opportunities for motivated individuals to make the switch to this field and reap the rewards. In the article,…
Read More10 Top Tips in Style & Mechanics of Legal Writing
You’ve probably been baffled by all of the different texts and articles telling you how to write and in what way in the legal community. One source telling you one way and another leading you down another route, well below are the top ten tips to adapt your style and meaniong of writing if you…
Read MoreHow to Maximize the Life of Your Articles – Turn Them into Surveys
Calling all publishers, editors, writers, and freelance journalists. It is time to breathe more life into your copy. Turn your articles into living pieces that spark measurable debate, get closer to your readers, and engage their mind and soul – we’re talking revolution. As it was in the beginning Publishers have for many years relied…
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Poker Writing: A New Writing Niche
Introduction Poker writing is one of those writing niches that do not fit anywhere but they are fascinating. It is a genre that did not exist as a viable alternative just a decade ago. But now there are writers out there earning a living as a “poker writer.” So what’s “poker writing”? Is it technical…
Read MoreHow to End a Sentence to Communicate the Right Subtext
How you end a sentence makes all the difference in the world in your commercial and technical copy. Or rather, it makes all the difference in the world the way you end a sentence. (See the difference already? In the first sentence the emphasis is on “copy”; in the second it’s on the “end of…
Read MoreTechnical Communication – A Pandemic Influenza Scale that Does Not Work
Meaningful classification of information is one of the prime tasks in technical communication. By that standard, the WHO (World Health Organization) classification of the Swine Flu into “phases” fails the test since it does not give us an indication of the severity of the “pandemic” or suggest what should we do about it. But first…
Read MoreHow to Balance Facts and Emotions in Technical Communication
Technical documentation readers are usually a “voluntarily captive audience.” They choose to read a user manual by their own free choice. When we get to a piece of technical documentation we are usually ready and willing to believe in the author and follow his or her procedural steps. All we are looking for are the…
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